Europe's far north in the winter of 1941. There is war in the Arctic. German troops are stationed in Finland and Norway - together with the Finnish army they have crossed the border to the Soviet Union. Their goal is to conquer the ice-free supply port of Murmansk and the railway line that connects the city with Leningrad. But the storm in the Arctic north ends in a fiasco: the troops under the German General Dietl get stuck in the trackless tundra after just a few kilometers. They are far from their goal of occupying Murmansk. The soldiers live through years of deprivation in an icy, hostile world. Only in the hinterland, in the heart of Lapland, there is no sign of the chaos of Arctic war in many places - for the time being. The people in the countryside come to terms with the Germans, live a carefree life in many places, and even start families with the soldiers.
