The short begins with Petunia ice skating, trying to keep her balance on the ice. Just as she steadies herself, Cro-Marmot comes in and knocks her away. She ends up falling down a snowy slope, getting trapped in a snowball. At the bottom of the cliff, Mime is seen making a snowman. The snowball Petunia is trapped in rolls next to Mime. Seeing this, Mime places a smaller snowball on top, puts in coal for eyes, a carrot for a nose, and two sticks into the torso (i.e. Petunia's snowball) for arms. He looks at his work in satisfaction. Later, as the snow is starting to melt, Mime is hard at work shoveling the snow on his driveway. He looks over to his snowman, and much to his horror, the snowman (which has melted and frozen over, turning it into ice) reveals that Petunia died during the process of Mime making his snowman. Petunia is encased in the ice, with one of the sticks shoved down her throat, and the other having staked her eyes out. Cro-Marmot sees this and, "falling in love",