Danger. It is here. Somewhere in front of him. A hunter can sense it before he sees it. Allaq has gripped his harpoon with both hands and waits for his breath to steady. Allaq, the Inuit boy, suddenly finds himself alone and at the mercy of the relentless eternal ice. If he wants to survive, he must find people who will take him in. His journey leads him through the ice desert. He battles walruses, polar bears, snowstorms, inhuman hunger, and exhaustion. And above all, he fights not to give up. But when he becomes snow-blind, it seems his last strength is fading.