On Peter I Island, within the Antarctic Circle, a plane crashes, and only two of the eight people aboard survive. Mechanical engineer Lin Yuanzhou must find a way to survive among volcanoes and glaciers with a companion who has lost a limb and is close to death. Geothermal greenhouses, tidal power, obsidian tools: he uses technology to fight absolute loneliness and creation to defy the emptiness of existence. The polar day is long, and the polar night even longer. As the trappings of civilized society gradually fall away, survival itself becomes the only faith. This is an epic tale of how humanity comes face-to-face with itself in the silence.
