For Chip and Agnes, summer is the perfect season to teach their five daughters to live off the land. For Sue, summer is the season of pressure for profit and survival, as she makes her year's revenue in this three-month period. Andy and Kate know that seasonal flooding could cause them to lose everything. Glenn knows that even in the summer months the Arctic temperatures mean a wrong move could have huge costs, and he is forced to be resourceful, hunting for food in the isolated wilderness.