A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself “already dead.”
A baby in a basket is left on the steps of an isolated monastery on a Scottish island. The nuns take it in, planning to care for it until a storm passes. Soon though, strange and unexplained events begin to happen at the convent.
Anna and Thomas are set to marry in the Tyrolean Alps, but when the family gathers, the winter idyll unravels old conflicts, career dilemmas, and personal crises threaten not only the wedding but the entire family dynamic.
