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Twelve-year-old Tommy reluctantly moves with his father from the big city to a small village in Lapland, the place where his mother, who recently died, spent her childhood. The village is near the world's northernmost nature reserve, where Tommy's father will work on a project to release a captive lynx back into the wild.

Little by little Tommy falls under the spell of his new surroundings and discovers that his mother had been a protector of the local lynx population as a young girl.

Tommy cares for the captive lynx, and when his father's plan fails and the lynx is about to be sold, he decides to free her. In trying to secretly help her in her fight for survival in the forest, Tommy turns against his family and friends.

The park rangers try to recapture the lynx, but as winter comes, she returns to the village and attacks the domestic animals. This gives the villagers, including an evil poacher, all the reason they need to hunt her down. Now Tommy is the lynx's last hope.

During a dramatic snowstorm, Tommy desperately tries to reach the animal before the poacher does. At the last moment Tommy unexpectedly saves the poacher from a difficult situation, and manages to convince him to release the lynx. Thanks to his courage Tommy regains the trust and respect of his family and the entire village.