 Followed by his two sons, Chuk and Gek, an engineer-explorer heads for a geologists camp lost in the Ural white wilderness. He plans to spend New Year s Eve there with Chuk and Gek, among his fellow-colleagues. However an undetermined incident has caused the occupiers to leave the place. When, to their amazement, the three adventurers discover the empty camp, they realize that they don t have enough food to return immediately and that they will have to join forces to survive for a few days without any outside help...