After her parents' divorce, Katla and her mother move from Los Angeles to Norse Falls, Minnesota, where Kat immediately alienates two boys at her high school and, improbably, discovers a kinship with a mysterious group of elderly women--the Icelandic Stork Society--who "deliver souls."

When Arnold Schiller gives into the depression of winter and commits suicide, his wife Claire must find a way to overcome her own grief and help her two young children recover.