Five hours from Montreal at the end of an endless road is a lake a favorite haunt of northern ospreys The Lac Villiers Foundation managed by a small family whose destiny is punctuated by the peace of the immensity of the boreal and by the demands of a life on the fringes of civilization has set up its quarters there This film plunges into his world and shares his way of life which like ospreys is on the verge of extinction