The story centres on an intimate relationship between Koka and his father Stas that live on the edge of Chukotka, the shore of the Bering Sea. The harshness of the local climate and living conditions determines not only the life cycle of its inhabitants, but also dictates its own specific forms of love expression and devotion. Stas is a harsh parent, but it seems that this strictness comes from desire to prepare him for the future life in difficult circumstances. The knife that Stas teaches Koka how to use appears more than once in the frame throughout the film. A ritualistic object that will pass from father to son, a metaphor for survival in the harsh tundra. In the same relationship love is omnipresent and found on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Love hidden somewhere in the depths of the harsh inhabitant of the tundra. Stas raises his son alone and tenderness reveals in moments of intimacy. It’s a story that brings up questions of the patterns of upbringing, whether it is possible to harden human

will not with force (even if the circumstances seem to demand it), but by the soft power of love, which can create an even more powerful inner strength but break the pattern.