While sketching a mountain troll near her home, Hilda falls asleep, waking to find herself caught in a snowstorm and befriends a lonely wooden man on the way home.

Hilda seeks a truce with the elves living around her family's mountain home after receiving eviction notices from them, and investigates a furry giant that comes to her house at night.

"Hilda is hardly at home anymore, seeking days filled with excitement and her mother can't help but worry. In a moment of tension, the pair find themselves flung far away into a mysterious, dark forest-- the land of the trolls! Can they work together to escape the clutches of these sinister stone creatures? -- page 4 of cover.