1973: Two New York urban professionals are summoned to Bavaria in the depth of winter, where they are thrown into the chaos of a family that seems frozen in time, battling within and without to overcome a dismal fate. Richard, a young physician, and Margaret, a fine art specialist, know that there is more underlying the family's dysfunction than the painful memories of the war. As they become snow-bound, high in an ancient mountain castle, they find secrets that threaten to tear them apart.