Waiting for news while the world assumes he has died, his brother Leon recounts the explorer's life story to Roald's Alaskan lover Bess Magids.

The Amundsens decide to join the race to the North Pole, securing funding by promising to prioritise science over speed.

As he sets sail, he reveals the truth to his crew who all support the change, and a letter is delivered to the King declaring he will eventually make good on his promised scientific expedition to the North.

He is better received in Norway, but his peaceful new life with lover Kiss Bennett is disrupted when he learns he must keep his promise to sail to the North Pole by drifting on ice.

Amundsen and his copilots build a makeshift runway and manage to return to Norway, to great public acclaim and the relief of Leon and Bess.

[3] Bernhard Ellefsen in Morgenbladet believed that "the best thing about the film about Roald Amundsen is that the polar explorer appears as something resembling the arsehole he was".