Sixteen trees on the Somme

A complex story about war and family secrets. Young Edvard wants to understand his family's history, which is shrouded in secrets his grandfather refuses to reveal. After his grandfather's death, Edvard travels from his native Norway to the remote Shetland Islands and the French battlefields of the Somme in search of answers. What is more important in life than knowing your own roots? Edvard is determined to uncover them, but he also fears what he might learn. He suspects that the key to his family's past lies with his grandfather's brother, Einar. However, Einar is believed to be dead. Why was Edvard's grandfather so opposed to his grandson getting to know him? And why did his parents take young Edvard to the Somme battlefield in France, where they both tragically died? The boy was then lovingly cared for by his grandfather, but after his death, nothing stops Edvard from leaving Norway for the Shetland Islands, where he hopes to find traces of his great-uncle. As he delves deeper into the painful family history, a tragedy unfolds before him, stretching back to the bloodiest battle of the First World War. His almost detective-like investigation leads Edvard to France, to the battlefield by the River Somme, where a cluster of sixteen walnut trees still stands after the bloodiest battle of the First World War.