Genre	Factual | Travel & Adventure
Format	HD
Author	Henning Rütten
Director	Henning Rütten
Production	nonfictionplanet for NDR
Duration	45'
Year of production	2017

The fantastic colours arrive with the cold weather. After the first frost, the forests on the coast of the US Northeast, transform into a wildly-coloured sea of leaves and gradually blend in with the wild dune landscape. Maine, with its countless off shore islands is the state of life's survivors and bon vivants: Julie Eaton is a lobster fisherwoman. The Federal State of Maine has issued hun-dreds of Lobster licences, but just 4% of them are held by women. Autumn and winter are doubtless the hardest months on the remote islands off the coast of Maine. But post boats, such as the Sea Queen supply the inhabitants all year round with goods of all kinds. However, boatsman Joe Flores is increasingly feeling the strain, now that the islanders are ever more busy ordering articles online as if their lives depended on it.
On the New England coast, Mike Wiley runs a restaurant with extremely experimental cuisine: as a creative gourmet chef, he is also proud to present sea urchin dishes.