Brad is an NCAA champion swimmer at an east coast college. Brad is also blind and an orphan. Over Thanksgiving break, ditching his girlfriend and trashing her plans, Brad takes a chance, based on information from a private investigator he has hired, and heads, unannounced, to the North Slope of Alaska. He is to trying to connect with his biological father to get answers to many questions.
The aging but experienced bush pilot Brad hires to fly him from Anchorage to “the Slope” takes advantage of Brad’s blindness and flies far off the normal route to deliver some contraband. The plane crashes where no one would think to look for it and becomes hidden by snow from a snow bank. Brad, in very bad shape from the plane crash, is rescued by an elderly reclusive homesteader and trapper. After his injuries just start to heal, the homesteader dies leaving Brad alone and unprepared in his tiny cabin. Brad, still healing and in bizarre surroundings, a Canadian Mounty who unexpectedly shows up at the cabin, injured and very close to frozen, after being trampled by a moose.
-> Does Brad make it through the winter in the small cabin?
-> Does the mounty survive her injuries?
-> Does Brad ever get the answers to his questions? |
