Pilot Charlie Lavery nastupuje do letadla, aby dopravil palivo do vzdálené arktické oblasti. Po vyložení nákladu odlétá zpět s nemocnou ženou, kterou má vzít do nemocnice. Jeho stroj má však poruchu a zřítí se na místo daleko od civilizace. Oba dva pád přežijí. Charlie se vydá napříč krajinou, aby nalezl pomoc. Po bezcíleném hledání zkolabuje. Těsně před smrtí se u něj objeví žena, kterou nechal v letadle, a která ho začne pomalu učit jak přežít v divoké krajině na rozlehlých místech vzdálených desítky kilometrů od jakéhokoliv kontaktu s civilizací.

Green lights dance across a star-filled sky, and snowflakes sparkle on the trees. It is little wonder Lapland is famous as a realm of elves and flying reindeer, the magical home of Santa Claus. This northernmost region of mainland Europe, however, is a real place, with real animals such as reindeer, Great Gray owls, wolverines, eagles, wolves, musk oxen and Brown bears who live out their lives in the tundra and forest.

A sensitive and intimate portrait of Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian Arctic and mother of five small kids. Ivanna is forced to leave the traditional way of life and emigrate to the city, following her own dreams, due to the quickly deteriorating conditions of life in the tundra. We follow her life for several years.

Two parallel stories are gradually unfolding the everyday life of two very different persons - that of 86-year-old Sara and 7-year-old Mihka - both residing in Guovdageaidnu - Kautokeino, in the middle of the Norwegian arctic tundra, through the drastic change of the arctic seasons and the passage from the long winter’s darkness to the never-ending light of the summer season.

A critical look at the human-nature relationship in the tundra.

Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of Alaska and Siberia to study the natives and the animal life.