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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Six year old Isaiah leaps to his death from the roof of the apartment building in which he lives with his mother. Smilla Jaspersen, who lives in the same building and has come to love the little boy as her own, does not believe Isaiah would go willingly on the roof as he's very afraid of heights. Although there is only one set of footprints on the roof, she still suspects foul play as supported by her "reading" of the footprints.
