About 3000 polar bears live in the Svalbard archipelago close to a small human community. A polar bear is the symbol of Svalbard, and its presence in nature is bound to the daily life of locals in many ways. A cultural anthropologist and a videographer traveled to Svalbard in June 2018 to find out, what kind of relationship the locals have with the polar bears and the surrounding arctic nature, and what kind of sociocultural meaning the polar bear has in the local community. The film summarizes the ethnographic findings, hand in hand with the stories and interviews of the locals.