In the movie, a woodcutter and his son get trapped in a snowstorm, where they're greeted by a ghost who sucks the life out of the elderly father. Seeing the son's youth, she spares him on the condition that he won't tell anybody about the night. The young man keeps his promise steadfastly, even as he meets his wife the next year. One night he tells his wife about Yuki-Onna, and she surprisingly transforms into the ghost herself. Angry, she doesn't kill, but takes away their children.