The Arctic region of Siberia is cold, unsettling, and beautiful. Palaeontologist Aisen Klimovsky makes himself a thermos of hot tea, gets dressed, and goes out to face the harsh landscape. The camera moves gently as a deep off-screen voice tells a poetic legend about these places—about Chuurraa, a character from the Yakut heroic epic Olonkho.

in the original language with Russian and English subtitles