When Molly Malone, kind roadhouse proprietor and McQuestion's lover, is brutally slain and her cupboards robbed, McQuestion suspects the unusually long winter and greed may have driven the guilty parties to murder. A stoic and steely loner, McQuestion swears he will bring these men to justice. With special orders from his superior officer, he ventures out into the ice wastes to find them and bring them in-- dead or alive.