阿卜杜勒是个新派的年轻人,生活在阿曼,他带着给弟弟奥马尔的礼物——一个电脑游戏——回家过周末,他一辈子都不会忘记那趟旅程。亚洲的一场漫长战争结束后,一名士兵回家去见他的母亲,但事情却有些不太对劲……
不过,我们的故事是从瑞典的索尼娅开始的。在瑞典,人人都听过山怪的故事,但索尼娅却知道这些故事是真的,因为她的爷爷……
(本书故事属非现实题材)
Some people say that they don't believe in ghosts, or monsters, or mysterious happenings of any kind. They laugh, and say that these are just stories for children. It is easy to laugh in daylight, with people around you. But why are there stories about ghosts in every country of the world? Why do people go on telling ghost stories? Can science explain everything that happens?
Abdul is a modern young man in Oman, going home for the weekend, with a present of a computer game for his little brother Omar. He will never forget that journey for the rest of his life. And a soldier in Asia returns home to his mother after a long war, but there is something not quite right...
But we begin with Sonja in Sweden. Everybody has heard stories about the monsters called trolls in Sweden, but Sonja knows the stories are true, because of her grandfather...