The protagonist of the film, Lyudmila, is going through a difficult period of her life. She lost her husband a year ago. Once alone, she is stuck on the border between past and present, where memories ring louder than reality.

Long-distance navigator, historian Dmitry Kravchenko goes to the Arctic in search of the disappeared caravel Willem Barents, which in 1596 was covered with ice off the coast of Novaya Zemlya.

On the eve of demobilization, 13 years ago, during the Second Chechen War, 19-year-old Roman was seriously wounded in the head. He miraculously survived, and spent all these years in a continuous struggle with a physical illness, with his own weakness and despair, trying to learn how to live again.