Far in the north of our continent, on the Taymyr Peninsula — well beyond any major settlements — flows the Popigay River. On its banks lies the small reindeer herders’ village of Novy Popigay, home to the Dolgans, a small and endangered Indigenous people of the North. Life in this region is a constant struggle for survival. The foundation of Dolgan life and culture — reindeer herding — is now under threat, as a mysterious epidemic has struck the reindeer.

A documentary about the life of a pediatric resuscitator. For ten years he has been with children who find themselves between life and death. One day his world collapsed and he was left alone with the empty ceiling of a rented apartment. Then he filled his whole body with tattoos. Then he found himself in the center of two tragedies, to which the attention of the whole world was riveted.

A film about the work of Russian microbiologists, discoveries, research expeditions. The film also raises the question of how ideas appear, theories and hypotheses are built.