Boys' college in eastern Quebec at the end of the 1940s. Brother Jean is not a teacher like the others. He wants to interest his students in the subject and to achieve this, he conducts archaeological excavations with his students aimed at proving the establishment of a Viking colony (Vinland) on the coast of the Saint Lawrence. The superiors of his congregation do not appreciate his unconventional ways of teaching. Without knowing it, Brother Jean will have a significant impact on the lives of his students, particularly in that of Émile, a young man who is having difficulty at school and who would prefer to abandon his studies to go work in a factory.

Like many others, Daniil has decided to leave his native Georgia and move to Prague in search of better pay. Originally a teacher, he finds a job with Ukrainian laborers controlled by a Russian boss called Sergei and thus becomes a cog in the machinery that takes advantage of the work of illegal immigrants… Vinland looks at the lives of people who exist all around us but about whom we know so little because their identities disappear the moment they relinquish their passports to the mafia who are interested only in profit.

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America - Vinland the Good. Mentioned in Icelandic manuscripts and speculated about for over two centuries, Vinland is known as "the place where the wild grapes grow" and was thought to be on the eastern coast between Virginia and Newfoundland. In 1960 a curious group of house mounds was uncovered at l'Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland by Drs. Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad of Norway. Added to the United Nations World Heritage List, l'Anse aux Meadows is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the world.

故事发生在1949年的冬天。让是一所教会学校里的老师，也是一个充满激情的业余考古学家。他认为维京文化始于一千多年前的圣劳伦斯河沿岸，也就是挪威传奇故事中著名的文兰。尽管他的方法被学校认为太过新颖，但他得到了学生们的支持，这就使他能不受干涉地继续研究。然而，13岁的问题新生埃米尔很快就打破了这种微妙的平衡。于是，让决心一边进行他的研究，一边使学校相信他能阻止埃米尔辍学，而这一举动对两人都将产生深远的影响。

公元10世纪末期，世界各地出现了只做战争掠夺的最强民族·维京人。被讴歌为最强战士的儿子·托尔芬，自小便生活在战场上，并向往着梦幻大陆“文兰（VINL…