The Nordland Railway runs from Trondheim to Bodø, tracing fjords and rivers up to the Arctic Circle under the midnight sun of a Norwegian June. The film rides the line as it crosses the Saltfjellet plateau past the Svartisen glacier and reaches Saltstraumen, home to the world's strongest tidal current, timed to arrive for the Midsummer Festival. Along the way it stops at the sites the route passes through rather than just the scenery: bridges and tunnels built by German occupying forces during the war, land where Vikings once fought, and pastures where Sami herders still tend reindeer. Canoeists paddle the region's rivers, a painter works outdoors in the near-endless daylight, and the camera finds moose and the rare Arctic fox in the surrounding wilderness. Interviews with locals, herders, and artists break up the train footage, giving the landscape a human layer beyond the postcard views. It plays as a travelogue built around one continuous rail journey, with history and daily life folded into the route.