The first story follows the first months in the life of Marshall’s son mixed with footage of her everyday life filmed across twenty years. It is a mosaic of landscapes, textures of objects and living creatures, fragments of people walking, talking, working, celebrating, travelling, communicating, and constantly moving. 

The second story tells of Agafya Lykova, an elderly woman living isolated in the heart of Siberia's vast Taiga. Agafya was born in this forest when her parents escaped from Stalin’s regime to live as exiles, surviving in the wilderness hundreds of miles away from the nearest town. Agafya did not meet another person outside her family until the age of thirty-eight and throughout her life, has left the forest only a few times.

The third story follows six scientists living in isolation in a NASA supported mission simulating life on Mars for a year. Their daily routine is spent inside a small pod on a volcano in Hawaii. Outside the pod, a black and red volcanic landscape offers spectacular visual contrasts.

Blending fragments of modern urban daily routine with scenes from Agafya Lykova’s forest life, and futuristic images from the pod in Hawaii, Fever of The Light highlights needs and desires that unite people and cross the borders of time.