In 1912, the noted German scientist, Alfred Wegener devised a theory that the worlds continents had once been joined together. He named this massive super continent, Pangaea. Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Wegeners theory. Their voyage to the arctic island, Svalbard, is led by the German geologist, Friedrich, and his lovely assistant, Leni. Joining them are three other renown scientists, two Englishmen and a Swede, Gustav de Geer, as well as the ships Norwegian captain and its Russian crew.