The film begins with a brief summary of the Northern Legion Trading Company, stating that each spring a party from the fort traveled to Hudson Bay to trade pelts for winter provisions but in 1815 the party never returned. This is when the story begins, almost two hundred years before "Ginger Snaps". Brigitte and Ginger are lost with their horse in the Canadian wilderness when they come across a seemingly abandoned camp that bears signs of a violent attack. They then notice an elderly Indian woman, who tells them she too had a sister once, and gives the girls two necklaces with bird skulls on them that belonged to her and her sister. The woman speaks of them as the Red and the Black, and warns that if they don't "kill the boy", one sister will kill the other. Suddenly the girls' horse is st