Set in Golovin, a small indigenous village in Alaska, the film traces residents’ lives amidst an increasingly severe climate crisis. Offering an observational yet expressionist portrait of community life, it depicts joys, adversities, and aspirations.

Deb, a schoolteacher, remembers how her mother always told her to live off the land and sea, a practice now difficult to realize. Isma, the village healer, worries about the feasibility of a plan to move the village further inland onto safer ground. And Charlie, the mayor, navigates a byzantine government bureaucracy to help his community prepare for the future. Regardless of such afflictions, they express why they love living in Golovin, alongside their hopes for the future.