莱斯卡住在白令海峡一个偏远的村庄里。白令海峡位于楚科奇和阿拉斯加之间,隔开了美国和俄罗斯。这个十几岁的少年,和村子里的大多数人一样,是一位捕鲸者,在遥远的世界边缘过着平静的生活。当莱斯卡居住的村庄有了互联网之后,男人们每天都聚集在一间小房里,通过网络摄像头一起在屏幕上观看数千公里外的漂亮女孩们跳舞。莱斯卡却在聊天网站遇到了一个美丽的女孩,并爱上了她。莱斯卡的这份初恋让他产生了巨大的变化:他决定去寻找这个女孩,在那个世界里有一段疯狂的旅程正等着他。Leshka, 15-year-old boy lives in an isolated village on the Bering Strait, like most men in his village, he is a whale hunter. When Internet arrives in the village, everything changes in the life. The appearance of an unusual girl on a webcam site fascinates him. The protagonist's state of being in love with an image so far away, the blurred silhouette of a beautiful stranger, leads him to the most courageous act in his life: to embark on the dangerous journey using nothing more than a tiny fishing boat through the raging waters of the Bering Strait towards an unfamiliar world in order to find his love.