Set in no strict period Glugga is inspired by the cold brutality of both Nordic reality myth The film follows a young blind deaf woman abandoned in the Icelandic wilderness as she walks the very same steps in the stone forge of Thingevellier that many did on their way to the Drekkingarhylur Drowning Pool during Icelands dark era of Reformation The voiceover is taken entirely from the world of Icelandic romanticera women poets