You're surviving in a village where winter arrives before food does. You're 15 years old, and this is your first real life-or-death experience. When the harvest fails and supplies run out early in the season, there's only one thing left to do: find any way to survive until the next day.
This is a story about hunger, cold, and decisions you can never take back. It's about how quickly familiar life disappears when the survival system collapses, and every step becomes a choice between right and necessary.
The further the story unfolds, the fewer illusions remain. Help from neighbors, hunting, chance luck—all offer only temporary respite. And each new day exacts a greater price.
The ending leaves the main question unanswered: what does it truly mean to survive if it means losing everything else.