Two friends escape from the village to the city in search of a better life. However, finding your place in the city is not as easy as it seemed at first. After making several unsuccessful attempts to earn money and spending the last money on entertainment, the heroes begin to engage in petty crime, not realizing what this can lead to.

This is a film about love for oneself, for a spouse and for the motherland, about the difficulties of gender dominance in modern society, about the search for oneself and a better life, and the realization that the environment determines a person, but a person has the right to choose this environment.

Novice Fyodor accompanies father Pyotr on an official mission to the Polar Urals. Ahead of the missionaries is the farthest northern camp, which the locals cautiously call "the edge of the earth." And travelers are not at all welcome here.