Ingeborg Nyard is 15 years old and leads the life of a normal teenager
- she fights with her elders, is bored by her housework chores, and is confused by the changing relationships that herald
her coming of age. But it is not long before she will look back on this time as one of joy and innocence.
Her
isolated island farm, high above the Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway is soon threatened by the ugly specter of war.
All that she holds dear changes - her way of life, her country and even what she understands to be her heritage.
Family secrets long buried are soon uncovered and events of the war force her turn her back on her father''s way
of life . She sets out from her island, where the reindeer swim out in the summer, to follow their migration across Lapland
in search of a new life with her mother's family - people she has never met, of a culture she does not understand.
Like the midnight sun and the dark time, her two worlds soon collide - the end of the war heralds Norway's independence.
But where does she belong - back on the island rebuilding her father's legacy - or high on the snowy plains of Lapland,
living as her mother did the nomadic life of a Sami?
Based on the award-winning children's book When
Jays Fly to Barbmo, by Margaret Balderson, Eight Seasons is an adventure story full of vibrant characters
and unexplored cultures set against the backdrop of the last frontier in Europe.
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Lapland is one of the last frontiers of Europe.
Stretching over Norway, Finland, Sweden and up into Russia, its vast plains have been home to the Sami for thousands
of years. Since before recorded history, the Sami have herded their reindeer from the snowy plains to the Arctic islands
in search of the sweet summer grasses.
Across the Arctic, last winter this migration almost did not take place - the snows were light and late, thanks
to global warming. This heritage is being threatened, and a project such as Eight Seasons will capture the beauty of
this land and way of life before it disappears.
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