The visually dazzling contrasts of horizon-less snowy expanses and lush seasonal vegetation of the Tundra is the setting for this unusual film. Director Lapsui weaves a number of legends and her own experiences into stories that document and describe the life of the Nenets, the nomadic people who hunt and fish in the Russian tundra. The first and seventh songs [the ritual sacrifice of a reindeer to the gods and a woman singing to her child] are documentary. The five central vignettes are a dramatic depiction by the Nenets of the harsh effect Soviet communism has had on their age-old social order. This is the world’s first feature film in the Nenets language.