LAST CALL IN THE NORTH

What would you do if your job disappeared overnight? If the industry that fueled your community’s economy disappeared into thin air? If the main borders to your wildly majestic town shut with no plans to reopen? Could your chosen wilderness paradise, with its towering glaciers, pristine mountains and unspoiled rivers, eventually turn into a prison of unsettling nightmares?

 Five years after Covid-19 brought the world to its knees, LAST CALL IN THE NORTH goes back in time to explore a town locked in lockdown for 30 months. The 18th-most visited port in the world, Skagway, Alaska has served as the gateway to the Yukon. Bordered on one side by an ocean inlet and the other by 8,000-foot mountains, glaciers, and Canada, cruise ship tourism comprises 95 percent of the town’s economy. While businesses began to open in other parts of the world in 2021, the cruise ships canceled two consecutive seasons spanning 30 months. All this while Canada kept its border shut.

 How does a remote town of 1,000 survive in the face of being cut off from their lifeblood, and effectively the world, for more than two years? Will there be anyone to save them, and ultimately, can they save themselves?