The polar bear wakes up at the beginning of January, ice is melting. The personified death comes chugging in by motorboat to pick him up. The journey begins. Death and Bipolar Bear have completely different destinations, but more or less steadily they head towards the South Pole, where Bipolar Bear hopes to meet new friends.
Life and death have to be constantly renegotiated and hotly debated, as does the identity of the polar bear. The situation is different for the numerous animals threatened with extinction that they encounter. Most of them are actually the last specimens of their species and death has its duty to fulfill, even though.
