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Miniserie de TV (2021). 6 episodios. Una mujer a la que declaran muerta se despierta de pronto con una insaciable sed de sangre, lo que es muy oportuno para la funeraria en quiebra de su familia.
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Live (pronounced LEE-veh) Hallangen, a nursing-home nurse in the small town of Skarnes, Innlandet, Norway, is found by police in a field and declared dead, but later awakens on the forensic table as her autopsy is starting. Live is taken to the town's hospital, where Dr. Sverre explains away her revival as her having been hypothermic in the field and her heart having slowed to imperceptible levels as a form of suspended animation. Judith, who heads the three-person police department, accepts this readily, but her sole officer, Reinert, remains suspicious. Live's brother, Odd Hallangen runs the town's funeral home, together with their father, Arvid. The family, including Odd's wife, nursing-home nurse Rose, live above the business.
After Live is discharged and returns home, she finds her father acting nervous and perhaps frightened. He eventually knocks her out with chloroform and places her in a wooden coffin, which he then feed into the oven at the nearby crematorium. Having awakened by now, a terrified Live pounds on the wooden lid until it breaks, and she barely escapes the flames. Arvid tries explaining that he had no other choice, and when he approaches her, Live shoves him away, leading to his falling onto a sharp object and being killed. A horrified Live returns home but says nothing. Police and forensics later rule Arvid's death an accident.
A mournful Odd takes over the funeral home but finds that with virtually no one having died in Skarnes in some time, the business is on the verge of bankruptcy. Bank officer Frode, while appearing sympathetic to this fifth-generation business, says the bank must soon take it and the house. Odd, hoping to turn things around, says nothing to Live and Rose. Meanwhile, Live finds herself being tortured by highly acute hearing. She also finds herself becoming unnaturally aggressive at times, and exhibiting greater-than-average strength when agitated. She also finds herself craving blood to drink. Live finds old reel-to-reel tape recordings of her mother, who also suffered from this "darkness" and blood-craving and who eventually killed herself some time ago in order to escape it. The townsfolk, however, believes that police chief Judith drove the mother to suicide after hounding her as a suspect in mysterious deaths.