The last great wilderness… There is a place where bears can live in peace, where there is sea-ice all year round, where the forests are full of prey, and where flat-faces never go. Polar bears Kallik and Taqqiq, black bear Lusa, grizzly Toklo and the shape-shifting Ujurak believe that this fabled bear paradise must be the destination of their quest. But the path they follow through burning Smoke Mountains is treacherous. Signs and omens point in different directions, and in the end each bear must follow their own star.