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Experienced Los Angeles police detective Will Dormer, along with his partner, is sent to a small town in Alaska to investigate the murder of a seventeen-year-old girl. Local police detective Ellie Burr, a sharp investigator, becomes Dormer's assistant. The investigation progresses, and soon the police have a suspect: Walter Finch (Robin Williams), a man of a romantic temperament who leads a solitary life. Dormer's partner dies during one of their patrols on a desolate rocky shore. This accidental death robs Dormer of sleep. As he becomes increasingly entangled in Finch's schemes, Dormer risks losing not only his sleep during these pale summer nights…