The Ice Balloon

A remarkable, tragic and gracefully told love story of a journalist determined to uncover the truth and a damaged woman desperate to leave the past behind.

1897 - As explorers and scientists scramble to conquer the North Pole, Nils Strindberg, with fellow adventurers S. A. Andree and Knut Fraenkel, takes up the challenge. Setting flight in a hydrogen balloon, Nils leaves his fiancée Anna and his brother Erik behind in Stockholm anxiously waiting his return.

1930 - When the men's remains are d...