Alaskan rookie musher Mary Helwig loses everything she owns in a fire but is determined to train her team in time for the grueling 1,000-mile long Iditarod sled dog race.

Shortly before Mary Helwig signed up to fulfill her dream of running the 2016 Iditarod, a 1,000-mile long sled dog race across Alaska, she lost her home and almost all her possessions in the Sockeye Fire in Willow, Alaska. Everything It Takes documents the year of Mary's life leading up to race day as she and her dogs struggle to prepare for the challenge of a lifetime.