Genre	Factual | Travel & Adventure
Format	HD
Author	Henning Rütten
Director	Henning Rütten
Production	nonfictionplanet for NDR
Duration	45'
Year of production	2019

Newfoundland's landscape is pristine, dramatic and sparsely populated. In the summer, icebergs sometimes drift by the steep cliffs. As the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank here, the ships last radio messages were received in a small wooden hut on the Avalon peninsula. In Witless Bay, newlyborn puffins are ready for their first dive into the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean. But some of them get lost along the coastal route, attracted by the illuminated hotels and restaurants. The Puffin and Petrel Patrol is busy at night time saving the lives of countless young birds and taking them to the largest puffin colony in North America. Hasan and his friends are known in Newfoundland as the MerB'ys, male mermaids. Colourfully made-up, with beards, tail fins and full of irony, they pose for a calendar on one of Newfoundland's most beautiful coasts. Jill Curran organises the so-called Lighthouse Picnics in Ferryland. The guests can spread out over the entire hill and be found again by the service crew, via a self-developed system of former burgees.