As the winter solstice draws close and the shadows in the pine woods lengthen, a young woman sets out to trap and kill a fox, the tutelary beast of her dead husband. Clad in its hide and armed with its cunning, she sets out on a hard and desperate journey – a journey that will lead her through realms of primordial spirits and restless phantoms, shadowed by a great wolf with eyes of ice and a bone-white pelt.
Her name is Ruja, and she will challenge the realm of Death itself to recover what was lost.
