New Brunswick, 1934. When a cook in a logging camp finds an orphaned baby bear, he brings it home to his wife, who names the cub Bruno and raises him alongside her newborn daughter, Pearly Everlasting. Growing up, Pearly and Bruno become inseparable, and the camp’s woodsmen accept and embrace the tame young bear, too. But all that changes when a new supervisor arrives, a ruthless profiteer who pushes the workers to their breaking point and has it in for Bruno. When the man is found dead, the blame falls on the bear;soon after, Bruno is kidnapped and sold to an animal trader. Determined to rescue the only brother she has ever known, Pearly, now a teenager, sets off alone on a hazardous journey through the forest. In her quest to find him and bring him home through miles of ice and snow, eluding malevolent spirits and the cruelty of strangers, she will discover new worlds and a strength she never knew she possessed. Loosely based on a true story, steeped in rural folklore and superstitio