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In 1925, Togo, a Siberian husky who loves being a sled dog, leads a team that rushes to bring diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.

Most people know the story of Balto, the world famous dog who led his dogsled team through a blizzard to deliver a lifesaving serum to the stricken people of Nome, Alaska, in 1925. Balto shot to instant stardom. A company named dog food after him, a famous sculptor erected a statue of him that stands in Central Park to this day and the dog even starred in his own Hollywood movie. But what happened to Balto after the hoopla died down?

A Miami dentist, who has an aversion to snow and dogs, inherits a rundown house and a sled dog team in Alaska. His first thought is to sell them and return to Miami, but a local woman acquaints him with Alaskan life. After being named in his birth mother's will, Miami dentist Ted Brooks travels to Alaska to claim the inheritance, her team of sled dogs. Now he must learn how to race them or give them up to a crusty mountain man who wants the dogs...