In a 2023 interview, Eirik Tveiten spoke on the reasoning behind setting the film around Christmas: "We knew it would be winter because it had to be cold... We were thinking about it, when is a good time to do this production, and then I thought, 'close to Christmas'. It reflects on the values of Christmas-time... taking care of each other, and when things like this happen and people don't take care of each other, it hurts. In an environment like that, it's good to tell a story with traditional Christmas values but it also puts it into a little bit of a magical adventure, I would say."