The film tells the story of the feat of Russian scientists who travel to Svalbard as part of a Russo-Swedish expedition with the aim of measuring the true size and shape of the Earth, as for three hundred years no one has been able to solve this ambitious task. The Russian expedition is led by a young astronomer named Alexander Vasiliev. For the love of truth, he is forced to leave his fiancée in St. Petersburg, realizing that another chance may never come again.