Nils-Aslak Valkeapää played one of the parts as well as writing the music to the film, together with Kjetil Bjerkestrand and Marius Müller.

In Finnmark around AD 1000, a young Sami named Aigin comes home from hunting to find his family massacred by the Tchudes or Chudes.

He gets into a debate with them about how to face the Chude attackers: some argue for meeting them in battle, while others maintain they should all run away toward the coast.

The hunters, except Aigin, who hides, are quickly killed by the numerically superior Chudes, but Raste is kept alive and tortured.

To prevent the torture, Aigin reveals himself and offers to act as a pathfinder for the Chudes to the coastal settlement, where a large number of Samis live.

Aigin unties himself and flees, leading the Chudes over a cliff where several of them fall to their deaths when the leaders cut the ropes to save themselves.

An avalanche takes most of the Chudes, and the few surviving men give up the pursuit, ensuring Aigin has effectively saved his people.

He shows a drum, a symbol of noaidi, given to him by Raste, and becomes the new pathfinder of the Sami group by virtue of his wisdom and bravery.

The film was written and directed by Nils Gaup, who based the story on a Sami legend with variants in a number of Scandinavian folklores.

[6] Gaup wove the story around the core of the legend, and introduced details such as the shamanic initiation rite and a romantic element with the character Sahve.