Divi nešķirami draugi Asteriks un Obeliks dodas sava audzēkņa Prostopniksa meklējumos uz ziemeļu zemēm. Galvenajiem varoņiem nāksies pārvarēt daudzas grūtības, pirms lieta beigsies ar ienaidnieku trokšņainu sadraudzēšanos un jautrām kāzām.

Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole to Asia. But the heroic journey turns into tragedy when the ship gets stuck in the relentless, penetrating ice. The men are forced to spend the winter on the frozen, arctic wasteland of Nova Zembla, fighting polar bears, hunger and lethal temperatures. Their chances of making it until the following spring are virtually zero.