A 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland.

Ashens embarks on a quest to find the legendary and elusive piece of electronic tat known as the GameChild.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.