Cold Storage, Alaska

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost wheresalmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch aKing Salmon if you''re Zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norsefishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyedprosperity in the mid-twentieth century, at the height of the frozen fish boom.But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population isshrinking every day.

Clive "the Milkman" McCahon returns to his tiny Alaskahometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke. He has a lot to makeup to his younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of theirailing mother-and, really, all of Cold Storage. Miles is a physician''s assistantand the closest thing to a doctor this side of Sitka. But Clive doesn''t realizethe trouble he''s bringing home. He''s reformed now, and his dream is to open abar-slash-church (a Cold Storage ordinance requires there to be as manychurches in town as there are bars). Clive''s vengeful old business partner ishot on his heels, a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust Clive fornarcotics, and, to complicate everything, Clive might be going insane-lately,he''s been hearing animals talking to him. Will his arrival in Cold Storage be abreath of fresh air for the sleepy, depopulated town, or will it turn the wholeplace upside-down?