The Country Far, Far Away no longer exists - it is buried under eternal snowdrifts and the ashes of the collapsed Ring of the Sacred Volcanoes. The survivors need to find a new home. Their only hope is a distant country called Blue Dal, on the other side of the huge Frozen Sea. Will the wolves be able to overcome the Ice Bridge over the abyss of the sea? Will they all withstand the onslaught of wind, cold and snow? And is there another dead, destroyed one waiting ahead? earth?