The Danish island of Mandø in the Wadden Sea is home to 27 inhabitants. While a storm is threatening their windy and weathered land, Gregers sets out with his dog to conduct research on the area. Gregers is much like a collective image of the islander who, over the course of hundreds of years, has learned to survive in the unfriendly environment, and, despite the threats posed by the weather, refuses to build a life elsewhere and hopes to find a wife to run his farm with. All the while, Mie celebrates his 100th birthday, and Niels, an avid birdwatcher, laments those winged creatures that are no longer visiting the island. Yet tourists continue to flock to the area, and the locals are happy to go about their daily lives on the island, contrary to climate change experts warning about the worsening and concerning weather changes of late. The portrait made to this small universe is enlivened by splendid images of the island’s scenery, unfolding as a place where the sea meets the winds and the skies, all perpetually in motion and in contact with the locals. The film’s idyllic grand picture is packed with comic, yet equally bleak situations, where the only alternative is to adapt to the environment and the response of this ecosystem becomes a consequence of our actions. (Carmen Lascoiu)