André Brink has been chosen to find the afflicted members of the Ice People in his generation. His search takes him to Trondheim, where an unfortunate woman has given birth to a stillborn, horribly deformed child. Could the Ice People have more descendants than he is aware of? André finds Mali, the suffragette, and the resourceful Nette. A clue leads the three of them to Sweden, where an unfathomable evil waits to exact a terrible revenge.