When the third series of the cult Danish thriller The Killing ended two years ago it left its famous detective heading into exile. Finding herself alone in a car with a child killer about to escape justice, Detective Sarah Lund delivered her own. Blowing his brains out cost her a job, a lover and a son. The final shots were of Lund, blank-faced, on a plane to Iceland.
A few months afterwards, Sofie Gråbøl the actress who in playing Lund had created an icon of feminine strength — and sold thousands of Faroese jumpers — was diagnosed with breast cancer. There followed surgery, chemotherapy and then reconstruction. From new year 2013 to new year 2014 she was sick. Then, just three weeks after her last