Tough and resourceful Tala will be 13 soon, and no one will tell her what to do. On one fateful day in a Quebec forest, however, she has to find her endangered father and protect her young brother from a trio of murderous poachers. All the while, she and her brother may have to face the forest's legendary keepers - the deceptively playful characters known as the Stone People, and a giant, black bird known and feared as Culloo.