The village of Varzuga on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Sheep graze, fishermen mend their nets, go out to sea in boats. Women at the wooden church. A Sami song is played. Workshop for sewing pim (footwear) from reindeer fur. Harvesting potatoes. Newsreel. A Sami family at the chum. Hunters hunt Maurice's polar bear. A herd of deer grazes in the snow. Reindeer breeders' camp. Dog sledding. Fur dealers. Ecological disturbances: stunted vegetation, dead trees, polluted water bodies, houses covered with sand; clouds of smoke, smog over the town of Kola on the Kola Peninsula. Extraction of apatite, transportation to the Severo-Nickel plant. Melting nickel in the shop of a metallurgical plant. Metallurgists at the stoves wearing corrugated rubber masks. Packaged nickel boxes for overseas shipment. Lumberjacks at work. Huge stacks of wood. Blockages of the forest. The patient speaks (synchronously) to a journalist about hazardous working conditions at industrial enterprises, about contamination of workers with radioactive dust. A doctor and a nurse assist a patient in an intensive care unit. Chronicle. The escorts are leading the columns of immigrants. Immigrants and prisoners are working. A staged trial of the head of an industrial district on charges of violating the environment, destroying historical monuments. Musicians of the rock group "Dangerous Neighbors" are playing.