In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter left her comfortable home for a year with her husband on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape and the lack of supplies; but after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic’s harsh, otherworldly beauty.



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