Couple living alone in Alaska. Rancid and harsh land, loneliness and cold. They lose their baby and contain on themselves. One evening they contruisent a snowman who comes to life so completely stealth. A little girl who goes to visit them from time to time, they will wait, and continue to love. Mabel remembers a book of his childhood and compared with what they are experiencing. They seem to derive their chimera, when neighbors arrive full of life to them and sympatisent. With this welcome help if the balance returns. But still, the daughter of the snow shows himself to them too .... Many poetry and tenderness in this book. Uncompromising descriptions in this country of the great cold, rude, hostile and so beautiful.
