When the silence of the South Pole gives way to gridlock, jostling, squawking, fights and sex... Millions of penguins, seals and seabirds watch and wait for this break in the endless polar winter that brings springtime to the Antarctic beaches. The good weather to come, a curious mixture of spring and summer, will replace the cold for a period of only four months. All of the animals are in their starting-blocks for the fastest love feast in the world.