When Ejva inherits her late father’s reindeer herd, mounting expectations push her toward accepting the romantic advances of Heaika, a powerful local leader whose courtship gradually gives way to mistreatment. Falling unexpectedly for his cousin Nejla offers the possibility of another life, but it’s one that threatens Ejva’s future and her place with her people and the land that has always defined her. What begins as a personal story gradually reveals itself to be something more expansive, as questions of autonomy and tradition become inseparable from the realities of life in northernmost Europe.