In the late 19th century Lucas, a Danish missionary (Elliott Crosset Hove) brimming with ambition and ideals, sets off on a journey to a remote part of Iceland to help finish the construction of a church and to photograph the local inhabitants. However, the ostensibly predictable pilgrimage, on which he has to rely on the unconventional guide Ragnar (Ingvar Sigurðsson), gradually becomes an unexpectedly intense encounter with the landscape and the forces of nature.
In the late 19th century Lucas, a Danish missionary (Elliott Crosset Hove) brimming with ambition and ideals, sets off on a journey to a remote part of Iceland to help finish the construction of a church and to photograph the local inhabitants. However, the ostensibly predictable pilgrimage, on which he has to rely on the unconventional guide Ragnar (Ingvar Sigurðsson), gradually becomes an unexpectedly intense encounter with the landscape and the forces of nature.