The backwater town of Björnstad—the Bear’s Town—is lost in the northern wilderness of Sweden: beyond it lie only impenetrable forests. Once, life here was bustling, but now unemployment and hopelessness reign. The last hope of the townspeople is the local junior hockey club, which once took second place in the national championship. Hockey in Björnstad is not just a sport: intense passions rage around it, and everything’s tied to it—what the future holds depends on it.
Victory day in the quarterfinal match made it the happiest day for both the city and the club’s leadership, for the team, and for its seventeen-year-old captain, Kevin Erdahl. But for fifteen-year-old Maia Erikson and her parents it was a terrible day that turned their whole lives upside down…
In front of every resident of the town arises the need to make a moral choice, to answer the question: what price are you willing to pay for victory?