Port Protection is home to the few who have left behind normal society and chosen a different life in a remote Alaskan community, where survival of the individuals and community cannot sustain without the other. The stakes are high. The land is rugged and unforgiving and the seas which surround Port Protection are cold and merciless. With risk comes a reward more profound than mere survival: a world of beauty and freedom with the security of community and without the constraints of bureaucracy. In Port Protection there are no clear roads to survival, inhabitants must carve one themselves. S8 EP7 "It's All Uphill From Here" Curly's deer hunt comes to a thrilling end with a shot gone awry; Sam, Troy and Terry struggle with uneven ground to build Troy a bathroom