Canada, 1898. The Gold Rush. Emily Meyer begins a long journey with seven German emigrants in search of fortune in the recently discovered goldfields of Dawson. But they have no idea of the stresses and dangers that lie ahead on their 2,500-kilometre journey through the menacing Canadian wilderness.

Thomas Arslan’s explorations of German migration shift to distant terrains in this neo-western. Starring the incomparable Nina Hoss as a woman of stoic determination, this Berlin School take on a classic genre sees even the crudest forms of movement and finance fraught with speculation and risk.