A team of scientists discover a frozen Neanderthal woman frozen on Baffin Island. They bring her home and defrost her, finding out that she is alive. Pea-yah wakes up in a new world, all of her people gone for thousands of years. Then the government wants to study her, hide her and keep her from any other governments. On the run with her boyfriend, one of the scientists who discovered her, she gets to discover the America of the 21st century, all the while realizing that Homo Sapiens haven't change in thousands of years, that we are still violent and aggressive.