Looks at the fallout of the 2008 Iceland's bankruptcy crisis, documenting the personal stories of people from a range of social and economic backgrounds, and arriving at a surprising picture of a capitalist society on the brink of despair.
In a land where wealth is considered a virtue, who is really to blame for the demise of the banking system? Is a re-evaluation of capitalist values the best thing to have happened to Icelandic society? Iceland Year Zero documents stories of various people struggling through the aftermath of national economic collapse. It is a portrait of a nation of our times at a turning point.—Anonymous