North Korea sends workers to Siberian logging camps to earn hard currency for the regime, and VICE founder Shane Smith rides the trans-Siberian railway to find them. Days of vodka and rough company on the train get him to Tynda, where he has to dodge the FSB before boarding a single-carriage line into the forest. A former police chief takes Smith and producer Simon Ostrovsky into an abandoned camp still stacked with Kim Jong Il propaganda, and Russian scrap dealers introduce them to an actual North Korean laborer. A local fixer known as The Fish leads them to a working camp, where loggers admit, carefully and only once their managers are out of earshot, that conditions back home are harsh, an admission that would be dangerous to make in North Korea itself. Workers describe postings that can run up to ten years. As FSB officers, North Korean security, and local militia all start asking questions about the visitors, Smith and Ostrovsky make a run for the border.