A classical romance of an artist and his living statue. Or at least that's where it starts. But the statue in question is a snow sculpture, and must return to the Winterlands at the onset of spring, though he promises to return the next year. Lleu Welsh (the sculptor) is okay with this arrangement until one winter when Jack Frost's (the statue's) escapades outside the Winterlands are discovered and he is imprisoned. Jack escapes long enough to ask Lleu to save him—plunging the down-to-earth sculptor into a world made of snow, ice, and Christmas stories as he seeks to rescue his lover from the Snow Queen.