Domestic Violence Season 1, Episode 1: The Husband filmed the violence

Violence by parents

Áslaug escaped from her parents' prison at 12 years old when her father was convicted of a decade of violence while her mother beat her almost daily.

80 year old woman

Eighty years old and newly divorced after fifty years of violent relationship. In the past, women were told to just bite the bullet when they sought help. A shocking story of a woman who moved with love to Húsavík.

Violent relationship

Women hit other women, was she asked? Trapped in a violent relationship for five years with a woman who threatened to take her life if she left.

Tale of a perpetrator

Why do people use violence? Is it an illness or do they know exactly what they are doing? In the final episode of Domestic Violence, we look into the mind of the perpetrator who is still with his wife to this day.

40 min