On the Yamal Peninsula in western Siberia, the Nenets have herded reindeer across the tundra for more than 200 generations, following migration routes older than any map. Beneath their pastures sit the world's largest natural gas reserves, and companies including Novatek, Total, and the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation have moved in with boreholes, a new railway line, an airport, and nuclear-powered icebreakers to move gas out through Arctic waters. The film follows herding families as they navigate fences, drilling sites, and a thawing permafrost that makes weather increasingly unpredictable, threatening the seasonal rhythms their migrations depend on. Interviews with Nenets herders sit alongside footage of industrial installations rising out of the empty landscape, tracing how the same gas wealth that has made the region strategically vital to Russia's economy has left an estimated seventy percent of the indigenous population below the poverty line. The herders say they cannot win a fight against the state, so they adapt instead, and the film asks how much longer that adaptation can hold.