Rasmus's son Niisi, drunkenly kills his brother's girlfriend and then commits suicide. The grief-stricken Rasmus sets out across the frozen land on a risky hunting trip, where he encounters a hermit, the Qivittoq, who takes him into a mystical world and helps him find lost value of Greenland original way of life. The first production filmed completely in Greenland, with Inuit dialogue. ​