Life is raw and harsh out in the Arctic tundra, where young Ivanna lives a nomadic life with her five children. Portrayed as a tough and charismatic woman, she is put to the test when she has to give up the traditional life of the Nenets people and move to the city.  Four years in Ivanna’s life have become a formidable film created with an artist’s eye for the material texture of the world where an image of a sleeping child, three fish and a hungry cat almost become a cosmic motif.