Sacrificed by his father, a disfigured infant plunges down a snowy mountain. A trapper rescues the boy who grows to young manhood, accompanied by the wolf that nurtured him and a dark anomaly--a fragment of that bond born to twins--the SHADOW OF THE SOUL.

Facing ridicule and humiliation from the town folks, Matthew strives to reunite his family. Then disaster strikes. Will Matthew risk his life to save the man who abandoned him?