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- Three, four, five... - Count silently!

The first time I got here, I went straight to the kitchen.

One more time. Go quietly to the spot before you begin...

Then I'll say it.

- I'll count to ten again. - Yes.

The first time I was here,

the first thing I did was to go to this kitchen.

I looked around,

and as I was leaving the room, I turned...

and my eyes went straight for the painting.

It was as if the sky had fallen down on me.

Can it be?

The picture I've been looking for all summer is here.

I had to call out to Kari.

Kari?

You've got to come and see something strange.

We'll stop there.

We'd like it a bit more natural.

I walked in like this and looked around.

I was about to leave the room,

going at the same pace.

As I was turning, my eyes went to the painting.

I just stood there, gaping.

I was completely shocked.

It was the picture I've been searching for all summer.

I called out. Kari!

Look at that.

It's unbelievable.

Oh! It's the painting we've been looking for all summer.

Yes, here it is.

Now you're acting. I'd like it to be more natural.

Kari?

I couldn't stay here.

I had to go outside to the realtor.

He might have been in a hurry, so I had to leave.

There wasn't just one. There were three!

For me, three means the Trinity.

In the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

What on earth is this?

For me, this story began with a voicemail.

Message received today at 10:16 a.m.

Hi. Is this documentary filmmaker Maria Fredriksson?

My sister and I have experienced a miracle

that we would like to tell you about.

- What are you listening to now? - To you. We're checking the microphones.

So when I speak, you can hear me...

For the sisters, the story begins here.

It all started with a whale.

When I think back on it,

I still get goosebumps about the incredible story

which began here in this amusement park.

They are from the northernmost part of Norway, between the mountains.

One of them now lives in the south of Sweden, and the other is visiting.

Had I not sat down in this whale,

none of it would have happened.

Are you ready, my good friend?

This journey goes to heaven

Are you ready, are you ready

My good friend?

Then there was a bump, and I saw stars.

The pain was unbelievable, I didn't understand what was going on.

I had fractured my tailbone.

I couldn't travel home to Norway with my husband,

because I couldn't sit for seven weeks.

So she stayed with me in Sweden.

I told my sister that there had to be some meaning behind it all.

Maybe I should try to find a house?

She wanted a house,

but I had seen a listing for an apartment.

No, I didn't want that. I did not want an apartment.

But I did want a painting

to hang in the kitchen for when I bought the house.

It was strange that she was looking for a painting.

"Are you getting the painting first?"

A fruit painting?

I said, "Yes, I'm getting that first".

So we went to flea markets trying to find a painting.

But nothing caught my eye.

WE HAVE APARTMENTS IN HOVA, GULLSPÅNG AND OTTERBÄCKEN.

One day my sister said, "Have a look at this."

She saw a listing in the paper for an apartment in Gullspång.

We can go and have a look.

- Welcome. - Thank you.

First, I went into the kitchen.

So I just... Kari!

Look! You won't believe it!

Oh!

Jesus Christ, there are three of them!

That means in the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

A blessing.

It means something!

You're standing in the wrong place. I have to move him.

Over here. There.

This apartment will be mine.

I made an offer, because I'm pretty spontaneous.

Something's going to happen, but what?

I was probably meant to buy it.

We were going to discover things

that had been hidden for almost 80 years.

A month went by.

We were going to meet the seller at the realtor's office.

We went in to sign the contract.

The seller sat there.

I noticed that she reacted to us staring at her.

I simply had to tell her...

"I'm sorry,

but it feels like my late sister is sitting across from me."

It was eerie.

She looked just like her.

Is she alive?

It was a miracle.

And it was just the beginning.

There was so much more in store for us of which we knew nothing.

But He knew!

She is our sister, who is dead!

We were told that she had taken her own life

on July 29th, 1988.

It was very painful to hear.

We couldn't understand why...

I didn't understand anything.

I had spoken with her just...

the previous Thursday, and that Monday we were told that she was dead.

July 29th, 1988.

We believed what we were told.

That's all there was to it.

One thing I thought about many times over the years was,

why I wasn't able to see the body.

Why was that?

They had told me that I could,

since I hadn't been allowed to see her at the hospital.

They told me to ask the minister the day of the funeral.

He said...

"If it were up to me, I would not have let her be buried in hallowed ground."

What did you think when he said that?

I wondered if she was even in that coffin.

- If she's in the coffin? - Yes.

- You thought the coffin was empty? - Yes.

Because I was not allowed to see her.

The color drained from their faces.

They were pale as corpses.

I realized that I caused their reaction.

It was our sister!

She said, "You're the spitting image of our late sister."

There must have been a mix-up, and she had lost her memory.

She thinks she is someone else.

"When were you born?" I told her, February 9th, 1941.

And then she said,

"Oh my God!

Lita was also born on that day!"

I said, "What did you call her?"

"Her name was Astrid, but we just called her Lita."

I was called Lita until I was 18 or 20 years old.

I couldn't understand it.

It came as a shock, that's for sure.

I grew up in a beautiful place in the north of Norway.

My parents, or who I thought were my parents,

were considered wealthy because of all the land they owned.

I cannot speak highly enough of my childhood.

But...

I've always felt different in many ways.

Something was missing.

I felt a loss, but didn't know what it was about.

I asked my cousin,

who's into genealogy...

"Can you help me figure this out?"

Yes...

The next day-- No, two days after that, he called.

I called Olaug to tell her about it.

He said that I'd better sit down.

Yes, I told her to sit down.

Why? Is it something bad?

"No, on the contrary."

I had to tell her--

A pair of twins had been born in February, 1941.

"You're a twin!"

Well, I-I remember I got goosebumps.

I had been given away right after being born.

But before that, they agreed to keep it a secret.

No one could ever know.

You never knew that the parents you grew up with

weren't your biological parents?

No, I thought I belonged to them.

As the days went by,

I experienced an identity crisis.

It felt like hell.

All of the sudden, I didn't know who I was...

where I came from.

I had no idea.

In order to put down roots in this new family,

I would need to take a DNA test.

Kari and I said it wasn't necessary, because there was no doubt.

But she had to do it for herself. She needed to be sure.

I was tested against Kari and May.

THE ENCOUNTER THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

And we found out that we are half-siblings.

Lita was our half-sister.

We had the same father, but different mothers.

And that meant...

that Lita and I are twins.

Imagine, Olaug grew up on the other side of the fjord in the north of Norway,

and then we meet in Gullspång in Sweden, more than 1,000 miles away.

That's what I call a miracle!

The painting on that kitchen wall

was just a coincidence.

The fact that it's a still life,

which is what it's called in the language of art,

made it a better fit for the kitchen than for the living room.

That's why I chose to hang it there.

When May started talking about revelations regarding that painting...

I didn't understand it. It wasn't...

I don't think like that.

I'll leave the revelations to others.

This is my twin.

Just stay there, that's fine.

She has the exact same eyes as I have.

She uses her eyes the same way, that's obvious.

She has the same nose. I have a photo of her in profile.

She looks exactly the same.

We have the same cheekbones, the same mouth, among other things.

You and Lita look very alike here.

This is the school your twin attended.

We all went there.

Here are my daughter Lisbeth's identical twin sons.

I've told them about you,

that you're Lita's twin sister.

They said that you could probably sense each other,

even if one is dead,

because the emotions are so strong.

Of course. It's almost as if they are the same person.

Lita and I had a special relationship.

She was a great big sister.

She was so knowledgeable

and she was an excellent cook.

She made even a slice of bread taste delicious.

She turned a slice of bread with goat cheese and a cup of tea

into something special.

She put her heart into everything.

Everything was made from the heart.

There's Aunt Lita!

I looked at the camera. You're not supposed to do that.

I'm not a movie star.

The last time Lita came to visit,

we sat there talking, and she said,

"Kari, have you ever felt

a sort of loss within you?

Even if you have all your loved ones there,

you feel a loss within."

I told her no, and said that it sounded silly.

"I miss those who have passed, that must be what you mean."

"No!"

Now, I wonder...

Perhaps she missed her twin?

I can't explain it,

I just know how I experience it.

No matter where I am,

I can feel her presence.

That happened after I put her picture on the wall.

Since then, she's been with me.

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

I have now found both my birth certificate and my certificate of baptism.

None of them is correct.

Much of it is untrue.

My birth certificate was dated 1947.

I was born in 1941.

The certificate of baptism is even stranger.

It says that my name is Olaug Alvilde Pedersen.

And my biological mother's name was Helga Pedersen.

- What were you called back then? Olaug...? - Bakkevoll.

And it was dated 1962.

I can't understand why.

When you were 21? And with a different name than...?

Yes. I have no idea why.

Hello!

- Hello, it's you! - Yes, for sure!

- There it is. - Yes.

No... Let me see.

No, I don't have this one.

Olaug called me to solve this mystery.

Let's see...

It was an exciting task.

It was during the war, and the Germans occupied Norway.

This is the schematic plan for the German invasion of Norway in 1940.

The German war machine

and the world's strongest air force were bound for Norway.

Twins had to be kept hidden,

because the Germans were doing experimental research on twins.

They wanted a pure race.

So you had to be hidden.

There is Olaug's name.

This is the first time I've seen it documented

that I was a foster child.

- Hello? - Hi!

- And who are you? - I don't know myself.

But I know that you're Pauline.

- And your name is? - Olaug.

- You're Lita's sister. - Yes!

- It's so nice to see you. - Likewise.

I've heard about you and read about you in the Family Magazine.

- So you feel like you know me? - Yes, a little bit.

I was Lita's nanny.

She was about five months old that summer.

They were busy with the harvest.

I was carrying the little darling around. She was a little round.

A wonderful little girl.

It was winter, and there was lots of snow.

I heard that when the first one was born,

the midwife carried her out and said that she was stillborn.

- That must have been you. - I guess so.

Yes.

Several people have said that.

That when the first twin was born,

she wrapped it in a blanket,

or a big towel.

Then she carried it out and said that the baby was stillborn.

I remember my grandmother... I was four or five years old.

She was in bed, and I went into her bedroom to talk to her.

She turned her back to me and pulled the duvet over her head.

I said I wanted to talk with her.

"I'm not interested," she replied.

I asked why not, and she immediately answered,

"You don't belong with us. I don't love you."

I heard the words, but as a child, I couldn't comprehend them.

- Hi, sweetie. - Hi, sweet sister.

How are you...? Oh, I'm just tidying up in the kitchen.

- Oh, really? - Yes.

Have you spoken with May? Have you heard anything today?

- No . - I'm meeting Trine.

Yes, I'm very excited.

Talk to you soon.

- I love you! - I love you too.

- Bye . - Good bye. Bye.

My cousin Sissel called and said,

"Trine, it's been confirmed."

I asked, "What is confirmed?"

"That it's true that Aunt Lita..." my mother--

"...had a twin sister."

And I was just like: "What?! Are you serious?"

Hello! Hi! Hi, hi, hi!

It was a really moving experience

to almost see your mother again...

after 30 years.

May said to me, "You have the same body language as Lita had."

That made me curious.

"When you feel uncertain, you do something strange with your leg."

And it's true! She was right.

- Shall I show you? - Yes!

Like this...

Mum did exactly the same thing!

- Who is that? - That's Dad.

He looks like my ex.

Here are Mum and Dad.

They look the same there too, especially with the red hair.

If I'd met you on the street, I'd think the same as Aunt Kari and Aunt May.

- That I was a ghost? - That you were a ghost!

- Indeed. - But I know that you're not.

- I know that you are her twin. - Yes.

- Her dear twin. - Yes.

Trine, have you visited your mother's grave?

- No. - Are you going to?

- I don't know. - We can go together.

I think we should try to do that.

I think we should do that.

My brother called me.

He asked if I was sitting down.

I said I was standing.

"I think you should sit down for this."

My husband greeted me and hugged me, and said,

"I'm so sorry about your sister.

They called from Oslo, or from the south of Norway."

- "-Who called? - Her ex.

She's dead. She killed herself."

How did they know she had overdosed?

Because of the many empty medicine bottles in and around the car.

Painkillers, sleeping pills... She had taken all kinds of drugs.

And she was lying there, dead.

After the funeral, it was confirmed why she had...

taken her own life.

She felt immense shame

because she had committed embezzlement at work.

It was like rubbing salt in our wounds.

To think that Lita had done this--

to first commit embezzlement, and then take her own life.

It was awful.

It was a double sin!

Message received today at 3:21 p.m.

Hi, Maria. It's Olaug.

I've been made aware of the fact that I am part of a big family.

There's Kari, May,

another sister, and a brother who is a farmer.

I don't know how to relate to them...

how to find my place among these people.

I have told my siblings my beliefs.

We don't share them.

I was thinking that when she arrives at the farm,

we should stand outside to greet her...

in some sort of a formation.

- Well, yes... - She used to be in the military,

- so we could... - Attention position.

No, we can't do that. She might find that awful.

The hope is that she can have the same relationship with us as Lita.

Well, that probably won't happen. After all, Lita grew up with us.

- You mean we shaped her? - No, I didn't say that.

- She was the eldest. - Yes.

Olaug came into our lives just recently.

The welcoming committee is in place.

Well, well.

- Hello! - Welcome to our house!

Thank you!

How nice. There are so many people here.

- Hello! - A little something for you.

- Thank you so much! - We'll hold these while you say hello.

- I have to meet everyone. - This is my eldest daughter.

- Hi. Aina. - Olaug.

- Aleksander? - My son.

- Your son, yes. Is he also your son? - Yes.

- I see. And this is? - Kevin.

- My son. - Kevin.

- Hi. Marianne. - My daughter.

- How many do you have? - This is also my daughter.

- What's your name? - Silje.

- And here is my son. - This is your son.

- Rolf-Steinar. - A pleasure.

Well... that was that. One of my sons is still at work.

- His name is Daniel. - I see. And are there more than that?

No, not that I know of!

Unless I'm like my father, and there's someone we don't know of that turns up!

- Okay. - How was the drive?

How did it feel?

Well, I don't know.

I'm a little excited about what I'm about to face here.

It feels strange. Very strange.

- Understandable. - It really is.

But that's just how it is. There's not a whole lot to see here!

There's no circus or anything like that. No museums.

I can show you the caravan. You can decide where you want it.

I can move it closer to the house, if you want. Or further away.

I'm not the anxious type, so I can sleep anywhere.

I'm happy to stay in the caravan.

- It's so nice in here. - Yes, it's pretty decent.

There's a double bed over there, in case you find some nice company.

- I don't know about that. - You're beautiful!

- What was that? - You're so classy and beautiful!

- Thank you. You really think so? - I really do.

Only the foundation wall for this house remains...

- That's where Lita and I were born? - It was no castle. No...

No. It's hard to comprehend.

That I was the one they chose to send away.

But it had to be one of us.

The Germans would not show interest if there was only one.

I'm sure it wasn't easy for them.

I can't imagine that.

Any parent would know that.

If you had to give one child up, which one would it be?

Okay.

Let's go back before we freeze to death.

What are you thinking, Olaug?

I didn't grow up like they did.

And that's probably why my experiences and my thoughts...

they are not compatible with theirs. We don't think alike.

If you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders

If you haven't yet found peace

Without the Lord, you are a lost sheep

But the Lord calls to us

His salvation you may have

Through His blood

He has cleansed all our sins

Are you ready, my good friend?

For the journey to heaven

Are you ready, are you ready?

My good friend

Are you ready, are you ready?

My good friend

I had the strangest dream last night.

I was driving somewhere, but when I got into the car, I thought,

"How strange that I haven't seen that moulding."

There was a brown moulding there. It was curved.

But why hadn't I seen the curve on that moulding after all these years?

Just as I'm about to start the car,

I turn around to look at the moulding.

Oh my God, that's no moulding. That's a snake!

Could the snake have been hibernating?

I've always thought it was a moulding!

And now, after all these years, it's beginning to stir.

And then I woke up.

- How creepy! - A snake is not a good sign.

No.

Hi, Maria. It's Olaug.

I'm going to read a poem.

"Dear twin, dear Lita.

I had the same nickname as you, Lita.

We went fishing in the same waters,

and saw the same mountain, every day,

but from separate sides.

Were we to meet on the day of our confirmation at that same church?

So close.

You and I are the only ones in a large family

who like make-up and jewelry, and who are not religious.

I had a near-death experience

before I was told that I was a twin.

I thought I was dead,

but it was you, Lita, who was dead."

I was told that she had committed embezzlement.

And that was why she took her own life.

But I have this feeling...

that something is not right here.

If it's true that I have an identical twin,

then it is also true

that she would never take her own life.

Olaug wanted to know if anyone had investigated this.

"On July 31st, 1988,

Astrid Marie Helen Prestsveen was found dead

by a witness who alerted the police.

The crime scene is located along Highway 2,

approximately 200 meters from the northern exit to the old road from the new highway.

From here, there is a 30-meter-long path down to the lake.

The path leads to a small beach.

At the same place a shallow creek runs out into the lake.

We found the deceased approximately nine meters from the water's edge."

When we got there and the report was read aloud,

we were all in a state of shock.

SUICIDE?

"Their conclusion is that the cause of death is undetermined.

However, Astrid Prestsveen

has most likely suffered a sudden cardiac arrest."

There was no medication of any kind

in her blood, urine... nowhere in her body.

The medicine bottles found at the scene

may have led them to believe

that her death was due to an intake of drugs.

She didn't take her own life!

She died of heart failure.

If they had followed up on the case,

and informed the family of the autopsy report a few months later,

there would have been no need to wonder.

The report stated that there were no traces of any drugs in her system.

I no longer have a sister who took her own life.

I have a sister who is dead,

who has most certainly gone to heaven and met the rest of the gang.

That's how I see it, and that gives me peace.

The Bible says that God gives us life,

and only He can take it away from us.

He owns our lives, so we have no right to take them ourselves.

That's why it was so hard to hear that she had done something forbidden.

Hello, my dear sister.

For 30 years we believed you had shortened your own life.

And then Olaug comes into our lives,

and because of that...

we find out you died of natural causes.

Forgive me for thinking so poorly of you.

- [Olaug] Hello? - [Maria] Hello! Now I hear you.

I've gotten ahold of all of the police reports.

A lot of it is very strange.

It says that they found her lying face down in a creek.

But they couldn't find her shoes. They were gone.

And the clothes she was wearing

were covered in grass stains and stuff like that.

- Hi, Maria. - Hi, Kari.

Did you just speak with Olaug?

Olaug called me. She can't leave this thing about Lita behind.

We know how she died.

That's in the report.

[May] I don't know what got into her. She's totally crazy now.

[Olaug] I'm convinced that Lita was murdered.

There is no doubt.

[Kari] I said to Olaug, "Can you not let Lita rest in peace?"

I have now been told that she didn't take her own life,

and that's good enough for me.

[Olaug] "I don't want you to go any further with this."

She wrote that today. I didn't reply.

Then I said, "Kari, you cannot stop me."

[Kari] She did a 180 and got really angry.

She started saying nasty things about Christianity.

But why talk to me about Christianity? I don't want to talk about that.

You've said yourself that you don't want to listen to that.

[Kari] This film was supposed to be something positive.

We had gotten a new sister, and we were all very happy.

But so many other things happened.

[Maria] Yes.

They're happy just knowing that she didn't take her own life.

That's enough for Kari.

- [Olaug] You know what I think ? - [Maria] No.

I think they've been scared shitless that something will come up.

Everything I know, all my education...

my work experience...

It doesn't matter to them when it comes to me.

I don't know what to say.

If they found out what my IQ is-- I have been tested--

They probably wouldn't sleep at night. I am quite sure of that.

But I'm not telling them.

- I felt I had a relationship with her. - Yes, you had that all along.

I think it's quite sad. It's really quite sad.

I have often thought

that I wish we could say one day,

"Goodness me, she is just like Lita!" Right?

But she is the complete opposite of what Lita was.

Because Lita...

Her looks and gestures are similar.

But her nature is the complete opposite of Lita's and ours.

Olaug must have been raised in quite a special way.

She must have lived with people

who are almost kings on a small islet.

When I think about Dad, and the fact that he has carried this with him...

But he was clever. He gave the worst one away.

- No, you can't say that. - Yes!

We got to keep Lita with us.

You can't say that either, because you haven't gotten to know her.

From what I can tell, she's the worst one. Of the whole family!

Be careful with her. She is a snake in the grass.

I've told you that she is a snake-person.

I realized after a while that all my siblings are very religious.

I do respect people who think differently.

But they wanted to convert me. All of them.

And that made me furious. Really furious.

Olaug will be here soon.

Right...

Then we'll be complete.

- Hello! - Hello! Welcome back to the north.

- Thank you! Nice to see you again. - Likewise.

- Hi! - Hi.

- Hello there. Nice to see you again. - Hello. Likewise.

- Okay? - I felt you resisting, but I don't care.

- Hi. - Hi. Nice to see you again.

- Okay. - Sit down.

- You're so cool in your leather pants. - I know!

- You like to dress up. - I really do!

So did her sister!

Our sister! Not just her sister.

When I think about Lita, and the fact that we're siblings, twins...

Yes?

It pains me.

Because...

my childhood was nothing like the one she had.

In poverty and misery.

- We weren't poor. - No, we weren't poor.

If someone told you we were poor, it's not true.

Just listen to me.

If what I've seen is true--

Where they lived, the house Lita grew up in.

A tiny lodge.

We were happy there.

If you had grown up with us, you would have had a great childhood.

- I am so glad I grew up at Breiviknes. - How nice.

- That's good. - I adore those people.

I couldn't imagine growing up any other place than where I grew up either.

- That's where my identity comes from. - Absolutely.

What I've realized,

is that the genetic inheritance doesn't matter as much.

- You and I were off to a great start. - We were.

But something happened, and I don't know what.

I hope...

I hope that we can put all that's been said and done behind us, and start fresh.

That's all I want.

I know that.

But you have to remember something.

In Norway, we have freedom of religion.

- We know that. - You need to practice it with me.

I don't even care if you believe in fairytales.

That doesn't concern me.

- It really doesn't interest me at all. - No, no, no...

One thing I will give Olaug credit for,

is that we found out that Lita died of natural causes.

Otherwise, we would still have believed that she took her own life.

I can only say...

There is no way Lita died naturally.

I will turn every stone to find out how the poor soul died.

We dine in the name of Jesus

We'll eat and drink as You have taught

To honor You, and to our gain

We bless this food in Jesus' name

Amen.

This is just stupid.

- Is it better if I speak even louder? - No.

Mum!

Mum was really down when she left Stord.

So I knew that there was something going on.

- It was obvious to me. - What do you mean when you say "down"?

She was heartbroken after the break-up with Steinar,

to begin with.

Steinar was

Mum's greatest love.

Otherwise, we would not have moved here.

It's as simple as that.

Love makes us do incredible things.

It controls a lot for most people, I suppose.

And it wasn't long after the break-up

before the alleged embezzlement and her death?

It all happened at the same time.

It was one thing after the other.

I told you to stop filming!

In regards to her supposedly having ended her own life,

with pills and whatnot...

It wasn't true.

It was... heart failure.

She had stopped at the beach,

and entered the water, but...

I was told she had walked so far out that she had water up to her neck.

But Mum never did that.

Mum couldn't swim. She was a terrible swimmer.

So I found it very strange.

Why?

What?

- God, it smells wonderful! - Is it looking good?

- Yes. Are you all here? - Good frying pan?

- Yes. - Good pancakes, I meant.

- All right, then. - Is everyone here?

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday dear Kari

Happy birthday to you

Thank you!

I'm going to take this opportunity to take my leave.

- Are you leaving now? - Yes.

- Oh... - Yes, I am leaving.

Goodbye. Have a safe journey, and the best of luck in your life.

- Likewise. - Thank you.

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

Solveig, everyone! I just have to say one more thing.

One thing that I've learned from Olaug...

When greeting a person I don't like,

I do like that and tighten my hand.

"Don't come any closer." That's how she greeted me.

Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me

Happy birthday to Kari

Happy birthday to me.

Do you think the biggest difference between you and the family is intellect?

Or that they are religious? What is the greatest dividing line?

Everything!

Everything.

Oh, God!

[May] I told Kari that I don't know if I want to film anymore

because she is an awful woman!

I shudder just thinking about her.

[Maria] That's how it feels right now, but it started out well, didn't it?

It was great in the beginning!

Shit!

I'm a trained warrior.

I have learned to kill people.

I had a lot of responsibility in the military.

I was made a lieutenant.

And...

if I hadn't been able to control my temper,

those people wouldn't be alive today.

Nope.

Do you know what we can do, May?

We can pray for Olaug.

We can pray that Jesus makes our hearts soft,

both ours and hers,

so that there can be love between us.

We can pray for it. Anything is possible.

You go ahead and do that, but I won't.

Jesus Christ was on that cross for me, for you and for Olaug.

- I will not suffer for her! - That's not what I mean.

I will suffer if I pray for her.

She'll not get my compassion.

Feel free to be a martyr, but I won't.

There is an Atlantic Ocean between my life values and the family's.

I feel that, emotionally, I don't want them to be my family.

I do not want that.

But to be 100% sure, I'd like us to do a new DNA test.

- You can come in. - Thank you.

- You're very good at this! - Thank you. I do try.

This gets stranger and stranger the more I read. Look at this.

Let's see here... I have to find it again.

Let's see...

She had taken out three insurance policies at Storebrand.

[Solveig] I see. Storebrand?

Didn't her ex work there?

- No, that what's-his-name... Steinar? - Yes.

Well... ask your questions, she's filming now.

We have to get started before I have a fit.

You worked at Storebrand?

Kari discovered that Astrid had taken out

three different life insurance policies with three different companies.

The last one was taken out with Storebrand in June,

one month prior to her death.

I don't understand how she could have three policies with different companies.

I can't remember ever having arranged a life insurance policy for her.

So I don't really have an answer for you.

Three life insurance policies... You knew her well.

Do you have any idea why she'd have three of them?

No.

She was stressed when she got here, because her relationship was breaking up.

I asked if she was upset because of Steinar, and the break-up.

She said that it wasn't that.

It had nothing to do with him.

Were you two still together when she was accused of embezzlement?

No, she had moved out by then, but we still had a good relationship.

It came as a shock the day she called and said she had been asked to leave work.

That was news to me.

I never judged her. I was just as devastated as she was.

At least I remember that.

She woke me up in the middle of the night.

I think I made her tea.

We were talking, and she said...

she had discovered a betrayal of trust at work.

I assumed

that someone had been with someone else's partner.

I said, "Oh, have you been with someone?"

She said, "No, but they are pinning it on me."

"What?" I asked her to explain, but she didn't want to talk about it.

"We can't talk about it."

And we never did.

When I see that she had taken out three life insurance policies,

I feel so sorry for her.

She must have been so scared.

And if she was threatened... I don't know?

She didn't want her children to suffer.

They were pinning something on her. Didn't you ask her about it again?

No, because she died.

- Hi! - Hi there!

- Hello! It's good to see you. - You look so nice and stylish!

- Hi! - Hi.

How wonderful! Let's go to the apartment.

Okay.

- Are you well, Trine? - Yes.

Last time, there was only one sheet.

It seems there are more now.

I should really wear my glasses.

Can you use mine?

I don't know.

- Do you want to try them? - It says "a family investigation".

"The markers between Olaug Alvilde Bakkevoll Østby

and May-Elin Storsletten and Kari Klo in this case.

First item, the result...

of the test shows that Olaug Alvilde Bakkevoll Østby

is not the half-sibling of May-Elin Storsletten and Kari Klo."

What?!

"Second item...

Is Olaug Alvilde Bakkevoll Østby the aunt of Trine Prestsveen Gaustad?

The probability of Olaug Alvilde Bakkevoll Østby

is the aunt of Trine Prestsveen is estimated at 0.02%."

Oh!

Thank you, universe.

- But I still love you. - Yes!

- I'm not related to you at all. - So where are you from?

I don't know.

In one of the church registers, it says that I'm a foster child.

I'm not adopted, but I'm a foster child. I really have no idea!

It was said that Dad gave a child up.

Then that's not true!

- Unless there's a... - Then there has to be...

Listen. The way I see it...

A pair of twins were most certainly born, but that twin was not me.

- We'll just have to keep looking, then. - We have to.

- And you too? - No.

- Don't you want to discover your identity? - Oh, yes.

- But I now know who I am not. - Yes.

- And that's... - But you have to find out who...

I have to find out who I am legally. Of course, I will.

- Will you help me? - Yes.

I feel like I have to interrupt. I'm really upset.

You're taking this so lightly.

This letter says that you are not related.

We can't just leave it at-- you had a DNA match.

Born on the same day, look alike.

But this says something else.

And then, "Well that's it, then..."

You approached me and said you had a fantastic story.

What is true and what is not? Is someone lying? What is going on?!

I don't understand, it's really upsetting.

- It's actually appalling. - Yes.

How can this new result be so different from the first DNA test?

It still feels like you are my mum's sister.

It really does.

No matter what that piece of paper says, that's how I feel.

I will believe that for the rest of my life.

Okay, I look like her...

You do look like Lita.

I saw that I looked like her in a video.

Watching that video, it was like seeing myself.

Are the images manipulated?

I'm beginning to wonder.

- No. - What should I believe?

You are so much like Lita in many ways. Is this really true?

- Can we trust it 100%? - I trust it 100%.

The world cannot be that mad.

Regarding this, I think...

To me, you are still my half-sister!

I don't know if you understand that.

I understand that you believe that. I do.

Well...

It's too low under my head.

This turned out completely different than what we imagined.

Could something have happened to make it inaccurate?

You just don't know.

It becomes a mystery.

I still think...

meeting her was like a miracle.

It was an even greater miracle to find out that Lita had not taken her own life.

And...

There's always something new.

Someone is not telling the truth.

But just to be clear...

I'm not the one who is lying.

I have nothing to do with the test results.

Hello. This is Maria. Did you call me?

What are your thoughts on the last DNA test?

[Trine] I think she cheated.

- [Maria] That Olaug cheated? - [Trine] Yes, I think so.

- How do you... - I said that.

Maybe she had some other blood injected into her own.

Message received at 4:25 a.m.

[Olaug] Maria, listen carefully to what I say. This is Olaug.

They are liars.

This is very serious.

Maria, you have to believe me.

- [Maria] Hello? - [Olaug] Can you hear me now ?

Yes, now I can.

I can't believe in anything anymore.

I just can't.

I don't know who to believe.

[Trine] I've thought about something, Maria.

It's really quite special.

If Mum died from acute heart failure,

why did it look like she had committed suicide?

I think someone has...

I don't know, it doesn't add up. The story doesn't fit.

Why was there lots of medicine around her

when she didn't have anything in her system?

The autopsy report showed us that.

What really happened on July 29th, 1988

by Lake Sigernes in Kongsvinger?

I wish someone could tell me.

My name is Kjell Hauger.

I've lived here for 51 years.

So you lived here in 1988?

Yes.

I did.

Let's go back to that July weekend

in 1988.

I can't remember much from that Friday, I was working in the forest.

But on that Saturday, I drove by on the old road here several times.

I noticed a car.

It seemed a bit strange,

because she sat in the car all day.

It all seemed very suspicious.

The car was still there on Sunday, but it was empty?

Yes. And then you get suspicious.

I thought I'd better go and follow the nice path down to the lake.

I went down there, and saw that someone had been sitting there.

I found the bottle and the pills.

To my right, I noticed a broken branch.

It'd recently broken.

I looked further in and saw some nice, clean, white socks.

She was lying there in the swamp.

The second I saw her,

I thought that she had been dragged there.

Do you know how long she'd been lying there?

Let's see...

The call came in on the 31st of July.

Time of death is July 29th, according to this,

so two days earlier.

The police report notes the time you called,

but the strange thing is

that the time of death is said to be on Friday.

No, that isn't right.

- It was Sunday morning... - Did you want to say something?

- You can say it. - The thing is...

Our daughters, our son and I saw that car for several days.

We saw her sitting in her car, but we thought she was waiting for someone.

That happens.

There is something horribly wrong here.

I think...

From what I've heard today, it's just not possible.

She did not die of heart failure. I think she was murdered.

Are you okay, Kari?

Yes.

Hello? We're on camera.

Can you tell me what you remember about this lady?

[daughter] We saw her several times.

Strangely enough, her hair color changed.

Yes.

One day she was blonde, the next day her hair was dark.

We thought it was a wig.

We felt very uneasy about it.

Passing by her made us uncomfortable.

Did you notice anything inside the car?

Yes, I am 100% sure that in the passenger seat,

there was a basket with roses and strawberries.

Red roses.

Mum never bought roses. They were far too expensive.

She must have been waiting for someone.

Something must have been very important

for her to sit in a car in the middle of nowhere

and wait for two days.

We have been living a lie for 30 years.

And now we're told that even the date is wrong.

The police didn't even bother checking that!

- No one asked you to come to the station? - No, no.

When the police came,

they told me this is exactly how they usually do it.

Why didn't they investigate what had happened?

Why are we standing here, 30 years later,

trying to find answers?

They probably felt they had all the information they needed.

Well...

You're tough. You said it, just like that! It was great!

Oh, my God!

What happened? What was that?

- Don't step on the glass. - Oh, my!

What happened when we stopped watching that clip on the computer?

- Oh my! Don't step on the glass. - I won't.

Oh, my!

Thank You, dear heavenly Father, for protecting Maria from this.

You grabbed her and made her stand up to turn the video off.

If it weren't for that, her head would have been crushed.

What a horrible ending.

Thank You, Father, for looking out for her.

A fraction of a second,

and all this would have fallen down on her head.

God, if it is not Your will that we continue,

then let it come to a peaceful end.

- Rest in peace. - Rest in peace.

How long has this lamp been here?

At least 10 to 12 years.

Lie after lie after lie!

We have been such idiots!

This reminds me of the dream I had about Lita.

It was the night after the last day we talked.

She was standing alone in a burnt down house.

Message received at 7:21 p.m.

Hi, Maria. It's Trine. I've made a decision.

I'm going to live with what the autopsy report told us.

The thoughts the others have regarding my mother's death--

I simply can't deal with a third cause of death, even if some believe so.

I'm sorry.

I want to spend the rest of my life thinking she died of natural causes.

Goodbye.

I am simply shocked.

I have never been to this godforsaken place before,

and when I step out of the car I immediately know, it's there!

- I am going down there. - We all are.

Amen. Rest in peace.

I hope we can find peace.

We'll probably never get

the answers to our questions.

We'll have to think...

Perhaps we're not meant to have all the answers.

Probably not.

Always cheerful when you go

Roads only God dares to know

Even if the goal is reached

Not till the end of the world.

Yes, this was the end of the world for her.

Always cheerful when you go

Roads only God dares to know

Even if the goal is reached

Not till the end of the world

Never fear the power of darkness

The stars will shine

With a Lord's prayer in pact

You will never shudder.

When you think about it,

it's sad that it turned out the way it did with Olaug.

She didn't fit in with this family. We were way too stupid.

It's true! We were!

- Yes. And religious. - To say the least!

It seems that was what scared her.

I think Olaug did something to the test

to avoid a match.

She may have done whatever.

Maybe taken a blood sample from a cat.

They told me I was the spitting image of Astrid, or Lita as she was called.

We don't look anything alike in this picture.

Not at all.

It has been terribly difficult.

But I don't hate them.

And I'm not as furious with them anymore.

But I decide who I want as my family.

Yes... That was the end of that story.

And I'm done with Gullspång.

FOR SALE

- Thanks. - Good luck with the sale.

- Goodbye. - Bye.

And this is something I've never thought about before.

This is like the world.

What does it mean, this globe?

I think it looks like a globe.

Well, it's in the eye of the beholder.

It's time to move on now.

I'll put it here...

Message received at 3:06 p.m.

Hi, Maria. This is Olaug calling.

I was thinking...

Perhaps you and I should do a DNA test?

We might be related.

So let's take that test!

Okay. I hope you are well. Goodbye.