When Jesper distinguish himself as the Postal Academy’s worst pupil, he is send to Smeerensburg, a little small town locate on a icy island above the Arctic Zone Circle, where crabbed inhabitant hardly exchange words, let alone letters. Jesper is about to give up and abandon his responsibility as a mailman when he meet local instructor Alva and Klaus, a cryptic carpenter who populate entirely in a cabin full of handmade plaything.