When Siberia came to Schleswig-Holstein, it caught the northermost federal state completely off-guard: a three-day snow-storm with hurrican squalls covered the land with a two-meter thick blanket of snow. All transport routes were blocked and several power lines were down. People were freezing in their homes, waiting for rescue teams that were on the brink of exhaustion themselves. A whim of the weather turned into a catastrophe. "Schnee von gestern" (lit: "yesterday's snow") is a collection of previously unreleased documentary Super-8 recordings. The filmmakers Gerald Grote and Claus Oppermann, who previously delved into amateur recordings with their film "8 Millimeter Kieler Woche", edited more than 30 hours of raw material into an extraordinary expedition into the past. Private camera perspectives capture the aesthetic charm of the moment and are pieced together to reveal a breathtaking piece of state history: "when the North Pole came to the own doorstep".