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- Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.
- As the world northernmost city, Norilsk is an impossible kind of place. In this Arctic city, winter lasts for nine months and temperatures plummet to -50°C. Norilsk Nickel, the first worldwide producer of copper and nickel, has dominated life since the city rose from the ashes of the Soviet gulag. More than 180,000 people manage to survive in this closed-off city isolated from the outside world. In looking at their extraordinary daily lives, this film paints a poetic portrait of an extreme city where everyone is looking for a way out.
- Sveta is eager to escape from Norilsk. It's even more of a dream because Maxim is out there in the far-away southern town of Temryuk waiting for her (or so she thinks). Nadya is the essence of everything that Sveta hates about Norilsk. The situation becomes even worse as Sveta's friends shamelessly and perpetually use Nadya's sexual services. When the disgusting dispatcher and prostitute gets an opportunity to leave Norilsk, Sveta's hatred reaches its climax. 'She has stolen my dream!'
- The polar regions are earth's least hospitable environment, yet people live in the Arctic regions. Modern urbanized life is possibly even there thanks to technology, but some (often tribal) communities still practice traditional methods, dependent on specific fauna, such as reindeer herding, dog sleds, hunting seals and collecting bird eggs. Some of those are even used by modern patrols in mineral-rich parts, e.g. in Greenland. The even harsher Antartic, were territorial claims are frozen, remains off-limits for exploitation, except controlled eco-friendly tourism and scientific research.
- These frozen worlds have reached a tipping point--their future hangs in the balance and with it, so does ours.