[soft music]
[pensive music]
[emotional music]
[wind blowing]
[soft music]
- Can I ask you something?
It's a little personal, but do you ever think about death?
[ice cracking]
[ominous music]
Help!
Hello.
Help!
Hello!
Please, I'm here.
Anyone?
Please.
Help!
[dramatic music]
- And according to reports just coming in, a young
and internationally-renowned figure skater has gone missing
on a northern glacier.
The skater, whose name has not yet been officially released,
was taking part in a promotional trip with her skating team.
Alongside a photo shoot, the schedule
also included a survival-style overnight expedition
on the glacier.
- Sector Charlie scanned.
No visual confirmation.
Beginning approach to delta zone.
- Copy.
Maintain grid pattern.
Report any anomaly no matter how small.
[soft music]
- Visibility is fair.
Horizon is clear.
If the target drifted, currents could have carried
them 20, 30 miles by now.
- Noted.
Stay systematic.
Every sector must be checked.
- Roger.
Adjusting heading 085.
Grid sweep continues.
[helicopter blades chopping]
- No flares detected.
Negative strobe.
Negative heat.
Only ice movement.
- Copy.
Hold your track.
Stay on current bearing.
Stay sharp.
Every minute counts.
- If someone's out here, they're not making it easy.
- According to sources, the disappearance
occurred late in the morning.
It remains unclear whether the skater became lost on the ice
itself, as strong winds and snowfall
has obscured any tracks.
Another possibility is that she may
have headed towards the glacier's edge
and fallen into the freezing waters.
One of her teammates gave a brief statement to us earlier.
- I still can't believe it.
She said in the morning that she needed a moment alone.
- Authorities emphasize that time is critical.
[dramatic music]
[radio chatter]
- Roger.
Rescue vessel now 10 minutes from glacier base.
Any sightings? - Negative.
Repeat, negative.
Reflection only.
Ice fragments catching the beam.
Returning to grid track.
- Continue one final sweep, then prepare to return base.
Confirm fuel status.
- Fuel sufficient for 30 minutes.
Resuming.
- Copy.
Vessel will check sector Alpha 9.
[pensive music]
- Come on.
It must be here.
Where is it?
[wind blowing]
[pensive music]
Please, come on.
OK.
Please.
[phone buzzing]
[snow crunching]
[wind whistling]
- (SINGING) Meadow, meadow, soft and sweet
Nicest thing we've ever seen
Flowers waving in the breeze
Dancing tall with buzzing bees
Hold my hand and laugh with me
Under skies so wild and free
[heavy breathing]
[pensive music]
- Yes!
[fire crackling]
[chuckles]
[dramatic music]
Fuck.
[groans]
Yes.
[pensive music]
[shivering]
[waves roaring]
(SINGING) Dancing tall with buzzing bees
Meadow, meadow, soft and sweet
Nicest place we've ever seen
[tent flapping]
[dramatic music]
[tent rips]
[yelps]
[grunting]
[shouts]
[waves roaring]
[helicopter blades chopping]
- We've flown grids Alpha through Foxtrot twice.
If anyone was out here, yesterday's storm
would have taken them.
Odds are almost zero.
- Copy.
- Request guidance.
Do we extend or return?
- Standby.
Command evaluating termination.
[pensive music]
[inhales deeply]
[wind whistling]
[crickets chirping]
[pensive music]
- [faint nursery rhyme]
[ingressive hiss]
[blows]
- Come on.
Yes.
[blows]
- [giggling]
[pensive music]
[sad music]
[singing nursery rhyme]
[water splashing]
- OK, this has got to work.
[elegant music]
[applause]
[pensive music]
[inspiring music]
There.
[dramatic music]
Please, please.
[shivering]
Goddamn it.
Goddamn.
[shivering]
[ominous music]
[phone buzzing]
Come on.
Hello?
Please, please, please.
Hello?
- Is there somebody there?
Hello?
- Hi. Hi.
Yes, hi.
Help me.
Hi.
- Yes, I'll help you, and I'll make your day brilliant.
Am I speaking with Ms. Emily?
- Yes, yes, please send somebody to help me.
- I'm Harry.
I'm calling from Cool Breeze Air Conditioners.
With summer around the corner, we're offering great deals
on our latest models.
- No, no, please listen to me.
I don't need an air conditioner.
I need help.
I'm lost in the middle of the--
- Is there somebody there?
- --Arctic Ocean somewhere stuck--
- Hello?
- --on this ice floe, and I--
- Really an ice floe?
Wow.
- Yes, really, an ice floe.
I'll send you my coordinates, OK.
I don't know my coordinates.
- If you're not interested in my offer, you can just say so.
I don't want to push.
- No, I'm not joking.
- Me neither.
- I was with my team, and the edge of the glacier fell.
And I woke up here.
And I'm--
- Our eco-friendly air conditioners are really energy
efficient. This is the last week--
- No, no, no.
Just please, please just stop talking about air conditioners.
Please send somebody to help me.
I am begging you.
- All right, ma'am, I got it.
I have other calls to make. - No.
No, no, no, no. Don't hang up on me, please.
- Stay cool and have a good day. - No, please.
[disconnect tone]
Hello?
Fuck.
Hello?
Hello.
Fuck.
Come on.
Please, please, please.
Fuck.
[crying]
- [giggling]
[pensive music]
[rumbling]
[ominous music]
[pensive music]
- Rescue 8842.
Rescue 8842, visual for each--
excuse me, 35 Seven sector swept again.
Glacier edge is breaking up.
Current's pulling west.
[radio chatter]
- 1, 0, 1, 0.
Go ahead.
Trace running low on supplies.
- Rescue 88, copy.
It's been two days.
Weather is worsening.
Rescue 8842, confirmed searching.
[shivering]
[ice cracking]
[pensive music]
[ice cracking]
[shivering]
[ominous music]
[ice cracking]
[pen scratching]
[wind whistling]
[shivering]
Huh?
Hey!
Hello!
Come on. Come on.
Please, please work, yeah?
[non-english].
[pensive music]
We're going home, finally.
No, where are you going?
No.
No, no, no.
No.
No!
Hello!
No!
I'm here.
No!
[ice cracks]
[muffled yelling]
[gurgling]
[groaning]
[coughing]
[shivering]
[animal crying]
How did you end up here?
[polar bear cub whimpers]
[polar bear cub cries]
[shivering]
I don't know if polar bears likes nuts, but at least
hey kept me alive, so--
[polar bear cub coos]
You like them?
That's good.
I-- I know they say you're not supposed to feed the animals,
but we're not in a zoo, so--
[polar bear roaring]
[polar bear cub coos]
[polar bear roars]
Your mom?
[polar bear grunts]
[polar bear cub coos]
[polar bear grunts]
[pensive music]
[distant grunt]
[polar bear grunting]
[deep breathing]
[shivering]
[soft music]
[pensive music]
Hello.
[sad music]
It's time to keep my promise, Anna.
[inspiring music]
What would you like to do tonight, my little sister, now
that you're finally free?
Most beautiful place on Earth.
I'll go for a picnic, amusement park.
Maybe we could ask Mom and Dad to take us for a swim.
Yeah, you're right.
It's way too cold for a swim, trust me.
I know.
Want to tell me a bedtime story?
OK, listen.
Just don't tell me anything scary.
Just tell me something happy and warm.
Yeah.
No, that's nice.
Tell me about that.
I'm sorry, Anna, please forgive me.
[pensive music]
[phone buzzing]
[pensive music]
Hello.
- Emily?
- Hi, yes, it's me.
Just please, please call somebody to help.
Please call 112 or 911.
I don't even know.
Just please, please call somebody to pick me up.
- It's me--
- You won't even believe how happy I am to--
- --the air conditioner guy.
- Huh?
- Yes, unfortunately--
- OK, you need to call somebody to help me now.
You need to call somebody, please.
- --to make my last call.
- Last what?
- Call.
- What?
OK, I don't know.
Just, what does that mean?
Just help me, please.
- It means that I don't get to call anymore.
- To me?
- To nobody.
- Why?
- Does it matter? - I don't know.
I mean, the only thing that fucking matters
is that you're my only contact.
My phone doesn't even work.
You just have to call somebody to help me now.
- Nothing matters.
- I didn't mean that.
- I know what you mean.
That's why I called.
- Look, I don't think you know what I mean.
I mean, if this is some kind of prank,
I need you to call somebody to--
- If you think this is a prank, all you have to do is hang up.
- I won't.
- You already did on the previous call.
- Maybe it was the network then.
I mean, it doesn't really work here.
- Where?
Where?
- I'm on an ice floe in the middle of the ocean.
You have to believe me.
- There we go again.
- Call somebody to fucking help me.
[phone buzzing]
Hello?
[ice cracking]
Hello?
Fuck.
Hello?
Fuck.
Please, please, please, please.
Please don't go.
Please just say something.
- Yeah?
You're still there.
Thank God.
- Why are you playing with me?
- What?
Me playing with you?
- Right.
- OK, so you called me.
- Well, you see, I was supposed to become a basketball player.
Are you still there?
- Yeah, I'm here.
- Yeah, well, it was just a dream.
I mean, I wasn't tall enough or fast enough.
I was good but not that good.
- OK, I'm sorry.
- No need.
That's life.
- Yeah.
- I also wanted to become a doctor,
but I mean, I didn't read enough for the entrance exams.
- I don't know what to say.
- I just couldn't concentrate because I was just taking care
of my three little siblings.
You know, my father died when I was little.
And my mother, well, she's sick.
So I gave up my plans to go to study.
- I'm really sorry for you.
- I was just, I mean, even just not smart enough.
And you don't have to be sorry.
Everybody wants something, and everybody has dreams like me.
I wanted to be somebody, you know?
Anybody but me.
I never wanted to be a telemarketer.
But this is all I got.
This is all I was good for.
- I'm sorry.
- You what?
What did you say?
- I just said that I'm--
- I don't want your pity.
Most of us don't get what we want, you know.
And I didn't-- I just didn't want to be a bad telemarketer.
But that's what I became, the scum of the world.
- Why would you say that?
- Because I'm honest.
Everybody thinks that.
- I don't.
- Most people just hang up.
Some are nasty.
And then there are those who want
to be nice just to please because they
want to make a good impression.
- If you think that I--
I didn't--
- Yes, you did.
- What do you want from me?
- I don't know what I want from you, someone to hear me,
someone--
when I called you the first time,
you could have easily hung up as soon as he heard
I was selling air conditioners.
But instead of hanging up, you spoke with me
and created that absurd story.
You wouldn't understand.
I feel like the walls are coming down on me.
You know the feeling?
[phone buzzing]
- The walls aren't exactly coming down on me because--
because I'm on a melting piece of ice
in the middle of the ocean.
- Yeah, right.
I almost forgot.
- Meeting another human, a fellow being of my own kind
is the strongest comfort in loneliness,
even if it's just a voice.
You should've seen what I'm seeing right now.
It doesn't matter if the voice is strange, encouraging, joyful,
sad, frightening, or confusing.
What matters is that the voice doesn't disappear.
You can imagine its face and figure next to you.
Nothing is more important than keeping the connection,
especially if you've already decided to surrender.
But suddenly, you don't want to let go of life.
- So you don't feel like a prisoner, like I do?
You can do whatever you want, and you
can go wherever you want.
- I wouldn't say so.
- Emily, please.
Don't even try.
You're living in the world you've always
dreamt of, doing exactly what you always wanted to do.
- What?
I don't get you.
- The spotlights, the crowd, the applause, the red carpets,
and most importantly, passion, that great feeling
you get every time you skate on the ice.
- How do you know?
- Easy, I've got your name on the list,
and Google has been invented, so many great and beautiful shots
and clips of your career and your social media page.
- Are you stalking me?
- No, not really.
I just wanted to know more about you after I called you.
- Why would you do that?
That's weird.
- How come?
- Because it's weird that you go--
what?
You go googling after calls to investigate those people.
- No, no, no.
You're the only one.
- OK, well, I don't believe you.
I mean, you seem to know a lot about me, and I don't even--
I don't even know your name, so--
- Yes, I believe that you don't believe.
My name is Harry.
- So you don't believe that I'm on a melting piece of ice
in the middle of the ocean?
Nice to meet you, Harry.
[ice cracking]
[water splashing]
Actually, I think I'm a little further south now.
I mean, the ice is melting.
And I think maybe it's getting a little bit warmer.
- What I believe, because I know,
is that you're on the Arctic glacier,
or at least you were there.
- Yeah.
Yes, I--
- Wait.
So here's your selfie video of you
on your way to the airport with your team.
Here you're on the plane.
You're explaining something to your friend
about the wooden thing in your arms.
What is it, by the way?
- It's-- it's my sister's urn.
- Really?
I'm so sorry.
- Don't be.
Don't be.
Anna died a long time ago.
She was seven, and I was eight.
Harry?
- May I ask how?
- She was-- she was struck by a lightning bolt.
- Really?
How is that possible?
- Man, it was so beautiful, and--
Time was as limitless as the sea is limitless.
That day the sky was gray, and you
could sense the thunder rumbling in the distance.
Anna stopped at the edge of the meadow
and wanted to go back home.
- Come on.
Let's run.
- I saw the fear in her eyes.
- Mama has said that.
- You coward.
- Anna's frightened eyes just made
defiance awaken in my blood.
I wanted to race across the meadow.
A flash sparked in Anna's eyes, and she took off
running before me.
I gained a lead and was already nearing
the other side of the meadow past her in an instant.
[calm music]
And then--
[thunder clap]
--just like that, I knew that "once upon a time"
life was forever left behind, a single bolt of lightning.
- So you think it was your fault, right?
[pensive music]
[ominous music]
[phone buzzing]
- Google turns out that you are also a writer.
Your book has been published, "Bedtime Stories by Anna
and Emily."
- Yeah.
My sister and I used to tell each other stories
each night before we'd fall asleep, and then some of them
I wrote down.
Later I have finished the text, and I published them.
- I've noticed that you're good at telling stories.
- Have you read my book?
- No.
- So--
- Emily to die by the lightning bolt is one in a million chance.
- Yeah.
Harry?
- Hang on.
Here we go again.
I found pictures and video clips from your friends and Instagram
and Facebook and Alessandro's page.
- So you really are stalking me?
- There are pictures from a promo shoot on an Arctic
glacier. - Yeah.
- This is you, your team.
Whoa, it looks like you had quite a party out there.
- OK, what more do you see?
- Laughter and chatter.
Oh, you were a little drunk at the party.
- I'm not.
- But you definitely were.
- I definitely wasn't.
- I thought athletes didn't drink, at least not figure
skaters.
- Everybody thinks that.
But I mean, of course, we like--
- You look so happy.
[pensive music]
[waves crashing]
- Harry?
Harry?
Harry, please, please say something if you're there.
- I wouldn't believe a word you say,
if I didn't see on your friends' social media pages,
that you're carrying an urn.
Wait a moment again.
Here you're telling-- wait a second.
[pensive music]
Well, you're telling the camera that this
is the right morning and the right moment,
and you have to do it alone.
Now you skate away.
Your friends are talking.
Someone says Emily's getting to the edge of the ice
to scatter Anna's ashes in the sea.
And now you disappear behind a mound out of the picture.
- Yeah.
It was just about a two-kilometer skate to the edge.
And when I reached the edge of the icy cliff,
I realized that here it is, actually
the most beautiful place in the world.
And I finally found somewhere where I could
scatter Anna's ashes and then--
yeah, then the edge of the cliff fell, and here I am.
[sad music]
How long have we been talking?
- Does it matter?
- It's morning.
- Are you busy?
You need to go?
- Are you kidding me?
- No.
I'm asking.
- Where would I go?
I'm on the--
- On the ice floe in the middle of the ocean.
Yeah, I know that story already.
But, Emily, I only ask you out of curiosity.
Where are you really?
- If you don't believe me, why do you care?
- Because-- OK, look, if you really needed help for some
reason, you wouldn't waste your time on me.
You probably have close friends so you
could share your time with them, not some stranger in the phone.
Either way, the end result is that you
have problems with yourself because you're
talking all night with some stranger on the phone.
- Well, that makes two of us.
I mean, you're wasting your time with me,
and you don't even know me, so--
- Because you're a special case.
I didn't know anything about you until I called you
the first time.
But for some reason--
never mind.
Can't explain.
- OK, Harry, you said that this is your last call.
You know, for me, this is probably my last call ever,
and I mean ever.
And I don't care anymore what you believe or don't believe
because it's just been nice.
When it comes to my little problem,
I probably won't make it, but this phone call
has meant a lot to me.
And I understand you're a special case too, so--
- Wait, Emily, I found something on the news.
Yeah.
- What?
- Here's a photo, some members of your team.
One of them is wearing a red scarf in her hand.
- Yes.
Yes.
- The headline of the article says,
"Our Last Memory of a Dear Friend and a Great Skater."
The scarf was lifted from the ice sea from below.
The search had already begun on the glacier site
but was called off after the scarf was found.
- No, no, no, no.
OK.
- Emily-- - You need to call--
- --I think that--
- --my teammates now.
Please, you need to call them.
If they're here, they can come and get me and--
- Wait.
- What?
What?
[ice cracking]
[dramatic music]
[grunts]
[groaning]
[moaning]
[pensive music]
[moaning]
[whimpering]
[grunting]
[inspiring music]
[exhaling sharply]
[moaning]
[exhaling sharply]
[pensive music]
[moaning]
[shivering]
[thump]
[pensive music]
Hi, I'm Emily.
Nice to meet you.
I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to eat you.
It's nothing personal, I swear.
I'll call you Fish.
OK, so that's Fish, Emily.
Emily, Fish.
Can I ask you something, fish?
It's a little personal, but you ever think about death?
And I'm sure you do, but are you afraid of it?
I'm sure you are, a little bit maybe?
[pensive music]
Fish?
I'm sorry.
You can make it, Fish.
I believe in you.
Please, please, you can't give up.
Please, Fish.
Fish!
Fish, fish!
No, please.
Fish.
Bye, my little Fish.
[sad music]
[moaning]
[exhaling sharply]
[groaning]
[gagging]
[thunder clap]
[rain falling]
[shivering]
[pensive music]
[dramatic music]
[thunder clap]
[water splashing]
[soft music]
[thunder clap]
[dramatic music]
[pensive music]
- (SINGING) Nicest place we've ever seen
Flowers waving
[dramatic music]
[gasps]
[helicopter blades chopping]
- 6L12 looks like certainly 122.
Be another F5 turning at the intersection of North-South
2011.
[helicopter blades chopping]
- Code blue, room 305.
[pensive music]
[chatter]
[traffic noise]
[subway car whooshing]
[soft music]
- Back then, in the meadow, I left the "once upon a time"
life.
[pensive music]
It can be done in many ways so that you no longer
have to try and move forward.
But you can just live in the moment
and be not in the past or future.
And in the midst of it all, my mind
was never clear enough to even stop and think.
Once upon a time, life was a burden
on my shoulders all those years, under all
those highlights and spotlights.
See?
Do you see me now?
I'm infinite.
[emotional music]
- Hello.
- Hi.
I was just calling to see if you sell air conditioners--
- Emily?
- --and, of course, to thank you.
[emotional music]
[dramatic music]