Tina lives in a shack near the Yukon River with her uncle, Peter Slade. When she finds a half-frozen, wounded man huddled outside their door one day, she realises he is the wanted bank robber Neale Kentish. She nurses Neale back to health, and they fall in love with each other before he makes his escape. When gold is struck at Dawson City, Tina's uncle insists she goes with him to stake their claims. When Tina's claim yields gold, Slade hatches a plot to capture Neale and blackmail Tina into handing over her claim to him in exchange for Neale's release.