Set in rural Kamchatka in the Russian Far East, where fewer than 20 speakers of Itelmen remain „Itelmen stories” is a poignant tale of the social and personal significance of a language that is near the end of its existence as an orally transmitted means of communication. The action in the film revolves around an ancestrally used practice of hunting sable by net. Two hunters encounter the wild environs and villages of Kamchatka as a history laden homeland and memories, nostalgia and hope echo throughout the film.