Da Imperiet for nys om at oprørerne har gemt sig på isplaneten Hoth, bliver sagen overdraget til Darth Vader. Han sætter en stor landstyrke ind for at knuse oprørshæren, der trods heroisk modstand til sidst må flygte. Han Solo, Prinsesse Leia og droiderne R2-D2 og C-3P0 søger tilflugt på planeten Bespin hos Solos gamle ven Lando Calrissian. I mellemtiden opsøger Luke Skywalker den gamle Jedimester Yoda for at udvikle sine evner og samle kræfter til endnu et slag mod ondskaben.

In Antarctica, an artist prepares his installation simultaneously with a group of scientists conducting research. An essay on the persistence and loneliness of the creative act; like the flight of a butterfly in chaos theory or a silent prayer. A sensory experience. A visual poem made of ice, snow and wind.

The Arctic is accessible to man only because of ice dogs. As hunters, haulers, and guardians, they have been our vital link to nature for thousands of years. Dogs led the Sarqaq people out of Siberia and, a millennium later, led explorers to the North Pole. As the light returns to Greenland, we arrive in Scoresbysund with a troop of the only companions worth having in this harsh environment.

Two parallel stories are gradually unfolding the everyday life of two very different persons - that of 86-year-old Sara and 7-year-old Mihka - both residing in Guovdageaidnu - Kautokeino, in the middle of the Norwegian arctic tundra, through the drastic change of the arctic seasons and the passage from the long winter’s darkness to the never-ending light of the summer season.