Off the coast of Greenland, the trawler Akamalik works through the Arctic winter as the flagship of Royal Greenland's fishing fleet. The film follows the crew through sub-zero temperatures and battering storms as they haul in catch after catch, showing how the ship's technology, from processing equipment below deck to navigation systems on the bridge, keeps the operation running in conditions that would sink a lesser vessel. Cameras capture the physical toll on the crew as they gut and freeze fish on a pitching deck, and the engineering behind a ship built specifically to survive the coldest, roughest seas on the planet. The film frames the voyage as more than one crew's job: Greenland's fishing industry, and by extension the country's economy, depends on vessels like this one bringing back full holds despite the weather. It is a straightforward look at industrial fishing at its most extreme, told through the people and machinery that make it possible.