A young man discovers true love when he meets Donny Patterson, a woman with fiery red hair and the personality of a playful urchin.
But when they meet an old Indian man and his grandson at a nearby elementary school, more is going on than just a fateful meeting. Something had been preordained, and Donny's body is soon found raped and murdered at the same elementary school playground.
Wanting answers, and determined to find the Indian and his grandson, the nameless narrator sets out into the harsh, blinding winter. There, he discovers something for more than he ever expected: a land of fantasy and wonder parallel to his own . . . and a chance to reunite with Donny in a more spectral form.
