The MS Fram is built for places most ships avoid, and this film follows her crew as they push through the ice-choked fjords of Greenland on an expedition cruise. Cameras track the vessel navigating pack ice, threading narrow channels between towering icebergs, and anchoring off remote coastline to land passengers among seabird colonies and grazing muskoxen. The crew explains the engineering that lets a purpose-built polar ship operate where ordinary cruise liners cannot, from reinforced hulls to the logistics of resupplying in places with no ports. Onboard footage shows the officers reading ice conditions in real time and adjusting course, while expedition guides lead small groups ashore for close looks at glaciers calving into the sea. The film treats the ship itself as the main character, showing how a vessel named for Fridtjof Nansen's original polar exploration ship now carries tourists into some of the same waters, and it lingers on the scale of the ice fields and the isolation of the settlements the Fram occasionally passes.