Deep winter, Algonquin Bay. Something underground is poisoning the land. Rez elders have called in Joe Tulugaak, Innu shaman for hire, to investigate. But just as he thinks he’s closing in on the problem, what looks like a half-frozen teenaged girl suddenly walks out of a gathering snowstorm, collapsing at Joe’s feet.

But Judy Kiss isn't really a teenager - or even (completely) human, anymore. What's hidden at the bottom of the abandoned mine isn't what either of them thinks it might be. And Joe himself has more in common with Judy than either of them could have ever guessed...