Plot

The personal story of the greatest tragedy in Greenlandic maritime history, told by the grandson of one of the 95 passengers who lost their lives on the cold stormy night of January 30th, 1959, when M/S Hans Hedtoft - on its maiden voyage - allegedly hit an iceberg.

This is the first film about the greatest maritime tragedy in the history of Greenland, told from the personal perspective of a grandson who has spent his adult life searching for a lost grandfather. On a cold and stormy night in January 1959 ninety-five people from all walks of life lost their lives off the coast of Greenland when M/S Hans Hedtoft - on its maiden voyage - allegedly hit an iceberg.

The main character of the film, Per Kunuk Lyberth-Lynge, is the grandson of renowned Greenlandic poet and member of the Danish parliament at the time of his death, Augo Lynge. Augo Lynge had been very active in his rejection of using ships to commute back and forth between the former colony of Greenland and mainland Denmark, but nonetheless his warnings were ignored ironically ending with his own death as he was a passenger on the M/S Hans Hedtoft as it went down on January 30, 1959. Per Kunuk has, almost like an obsession, researched the specifics surrounding that faithful night as the unsinkable ship hit an iceberg, and his conclusions are clear: the ship could not have gone down where is was supposed to have gone down.

The film gradually opens up to a world of sorrow which has been inherited through the generations all the while excerpts from the morse communication carries the story forward to its inevitable conclusion: "We are sinking..."

Beneath the personal story lies an equally true but untold story of how ignorant colonialism ended up leading to the sinking of the unsinkable ship - an event that would have great repercussions within both Greenlandic and Danish societies.