By all appearances, Cy Ford is no more than a quiet loner living in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He works as a conservation officer and prefers the company of his sled dogs. What nobody suspects is that Ford’s past is a fractured one, and everything, down to his name, is a complete lie. During the winter months, Ford moonlights as a drug-running dog sled musher, and he’s amassed a small fortune en route.

With Christmas around the corner, Ford has decided to exit the smuggling game, but it won’t be that easy. When a turf war breaks out between his Canadian employer and a Detroit-based mobster, he finds himself forced into one last drug run he and his dog team may never reach the end of.