Bizarre rituals help soldiers develop powerful bonds amidst the tense existence of one of the Russian army's last existing frozen outposts. In the midst of the vast and frozen nothingness, and close to a thousand miles from the nearest tree, a handful of old soldiers and one 19-year-old rookie are left to deal with themselves, the magnificent nature and the antiquated political ideas that keep them on their toes, as they ward off invisible enemies from the Russian borders.