These eight stories take you to the Arctic - here, Astrid Ruppert confronts her heroines and heroes with the silence of the eternal ice and the fragility of their own worlds. "He stepped to the railing and looked towards the northernmost horizon he had ever seen. The captain's announcement had prepared him for it. In life, there is no warning for this. Then the North came quite suddenly." The women and men traveling through the icy world of the Arctic Circle are searching for their own North, since their inner compass has been rendered ineffective by life. They find answers to their questions in the most unlikely moments, in an Arctic summer that is as cold as winter. In the Arctic night, which is a long day. Here, it is precisely those who know that everything is not going as it should who find their purpose.