Three American film-makers join an Arctic cruise from Svalbard where they hope to film the amazing wildlife that thrives in this otherwise hostile environment. They awake one morning, though, to find the boat has done a bit of a "Marie Celeste". The engines have stopped working, the boat is adrift amongst some precarious ice floes and cliffs, and there is no sign of the crew!! No response to their mayday messages so they conclude that taking to their riff and finding a settlement on land is their best option. Luckily, they stumble upon a facility that initially offers them hope of survival and ...