Inge Wegge and Jørn Ranum spent nine months of a cold, Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of a remote, arctic island off the coast of Northern Norway, facing nothing but the vast Atlantic Ocean. There they built a cabin from driftwood and other cast-offs that washed ashore and ate expired food that the stores would otherwise have thrown away. But the boys brought with them two items of utmost importance: their boards - perhaps their biggest motivation for the arctic adventure....