The inner Alm Valley sits at the edge of Austria's Totes Gebirge, the Dead Mountains, a thinly populated stretch of terrain that turns out to host the largest permanent raven settlement in central Europe. In winter, as many as 120 half-grown ravens converge on the area around a wild animal park, drawn by the easy pickings of stolen food, and the film follows this gathering as it happens season by season. Cameras track individual birds foraging, squabbling, and testing the limits of what they can get away with around the park's animals and staff, while the footage builds a picture of raven behavior that goes well beyond scavenging. The film also touches on what researchers have learned about raven intelligence more broadly, birds whose problem-solving has been compared to that of parrots. Rather than a single narrative arc, it works as an extended observation of one valley's raven population at the peak of its numbers, showing why this particular corner of the Alps has become the species' densest foothold in the region.