2004 Kalmar, Southern Sweden . The cruelty of winter was beginning its rapid onslaught over the land and its folk, the Swedesa stoic people who for millennium had tested their mettle against natures icy fury and prevailed. The seas were beginning to freeze over, the ground turning to stone and life unprepared was vanquished to a brutal fate as the darkness tightened its stranglehold for the long, merciless months ahead. It was in the December of that year when the first light began to flicker. N