At the end of WWII, Josef Stalin ordered a grandiose, improbable project: the construction of a railroad across the Arctic Circle. For eight tortuous years, thousands of slave laborers were imported to build “The Great Stalin Railway.” A conservative estimate shows that there were 60,000 worker causalities in camps whose mottos were “You Die Today, I’ll Die Tomorrow.” Director Tom Roberts looks at men who survived the experience and are still haunted by it after four decades. The stunning, icily tinted cinematography conjures a world devoid of warmth and hope, where men are stripped of everything but the will to survive.