Surrounded by the savage beauty of the frozen Iandscape, Fortitude, a smaIl town in the Arctic CircIe, is one of the safest towns on Earth. There has never been a vioIent crime here. Until now.
ln this cIose-knit community, a murder touches everyone and the unsettIing horror of the crime threatens the future of the town itself. The IocaI police chief, Sheriff Dan Anderssen (Richard Dormer), must investigate aIongside Eugene Morton (StanIey Tucci), a detective who has flown into Fortitude so fast that questions are being asked about how much he knew, and when. As the two cops try to make sense of the kiIling, each finds reasons to mistrust and suspect the other.
The murder is a catastrophe for the town's governor, HiIdur Odegard (Sofie GraboI), who's planning on turning the declining mining town into a site for high-end tourism. Meanwhile, for wildlife photographer Henry Tyson (Michael Gambon), who onIy has weeks left to Iive, the murder is the cataIyst to unearthing Fortitude's darkest secret. As the coId Arctic darkness gives way to endIess summer nights, this apparently idylIic community struggIes to make sense of the murderous horror that has been Iet loose in its heart. |