Deep in the Russian Far East, a small people are dying out. Civilisation Soviet-style has all but destroyed the indigenous Udege tribe of Siberia. Only 1,400 of the ancient hunting people are still thought to be alive.
These few are trapped in a losing battle against big business and booze that has submerged centuries of culture and a language which only the old and dying can remember. Ramshackle, unloved, underfunded - the village of Krasny Yar is no different from thousands of other small villages dotted across the wastes of Siberia. Except in one respect - Krasny Yar is home to 400 Udege people. Or a little less than a third of the entire surviving Udege nation.
For the Udege are a tribe on the edge of extinction, one of many indigenous Siberian peoples all but crushed by the onslaught of Soviet civilisation. The Udege were nomadic hunters, surviving on the fish and game of the Siberian tundra. The Soviets settled them in villages like Krasny Yar. Now their culture is dying. Only this elderly couple can still speak the native language. Soosan and Anna have seen their traditional way of life shattered.