Stepan Yemelyanov

The Red Army squadron is trying to escape from the enemy while carrying a huge load of rare furs to be sold abroad.

Veliky Ustyug at the beginning of the 17th century. Semyon Dezhnyov falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant — Avdotya, but the groom is poor. The girl's father sets a condition: Dezhnyov must go to Siberia and get rich — only then will he receive consent to marry. Dezhnyov agrees and leaves for Siberia. Although he passes the test, he does not return to Avdotya. He finds a strait "from a warm sea to a cold one": from the mouth of the Kolyma he swims to the Pacific Ocean and opens the strait between the continents.

Evadés du goulag sur des chevaux yakoutes, un chamane et Dimitri le violoniste s'enfuient dans la taïga. Avant de mourir, le chamane révélée à son compagnon que les esprits l'entourent, et qu'ils l'accompagneront dans ses aventures et ses rencontres vers ces immensités ou aucun homme ne peut survivre seul.