位于俄罗斯某高寒地带的气象站,驻守着三个男人,两个天文学家伊万诺夫(Vladimir Gusev 饰)和卓朵夫(Sergey Garmash 饰),以及出身孤儿院的19岁年轻厨师罗马哈(Pyotr Logachev 饰)。此前不久,总部传来消息,这座气象站即将出售改建成旅馆,而伊万诺夫和卓朵夫面临失业的危险,罗马哈则有望继续留在这里工作。这一消息令气象站的气氛尴尬而紧张。不久,大银行家瓦迪姆•潘科夫斯基(Sergey Yushkevich 饰)偕同美丽迷人的夫人伊莲娜(Marina Aleksandrova 饰)来到这里探访,而他们的到来似乎打破了好不容易才稳定住的平衡。 极度严寒的地带,死亡相继发生,生命与人性承受着巨大的考验……Two veteran meteorologists spend their days on a remote mountain weather station, accompanied by a young boy working as a cook. Their every-day lifestyle, made of creating matchstick models on one side, researching the big-foot myth on the other, and the boy's constant need to find places for hiding is briefly interrupted by a visit from two tourists: husband and his young wife - traveling to visit a cave near the weather station, so they'd mark their five year anniversary. Their arrival is the primer for an unknown series of events that puts an experienced inspector and his young colleague where we find them at the beginning of the movie: on a deserted weather station, where everyone seems to have vanished into thin air. The hank slowly unrolls as viewer discovers the truth behind everything, step by step, until the final loop of a long story line unravels and present him the final surprise.