The Ideal:

A visual narrative of angling for Atlantic salmon in the arctic region of northern Russia.

The Reality:

A memorable odyssey involving clunky helicopters & ex (?) KGB pilots, bush league politics, devil dogs & confused caribou, the anchor of NBC News, a lost cache of black caviar, payola, millions upon millions of rubles, billions upon billions of mosquitoes, and a cold river amid the vast, barren, and hopefully windy, tundra.