Roman in traditions of "Jane Эйр" and "Rebecca" with the Icelandic colour. Роуса was happy, living with parents in their village torn off from other world, in the day-time she prayed to christian God, and at night whispered with old Icelandic Gods. But after the oxymortia of father, remaining with a sick mother on hands, a girl forces to agree to marriage with a visiting merchant offering a quite good dowry. Роуса moves in the new house, that stands back from other accommodation, at a sea. A husband of her, Йоуна, hardly ever is not at home, on intermingling with locals he set embargo. A young woman exists nearly in a complete isolation. And soon reason of her begins to abort jokes. Sounds seem her, somebody's figures seem her. She feels that a house literally envelops her some magic.