Muriel is a hot tempered but charming intelligent well educated woman of class who holds her own in the Scottish establishment. She is a hot stepping ravenously beautiful woman who is well aware that she has the body and the brains to go with it. She is dating Hubert who is a mechanical engineer of repute working for a firm that designs small engineering solutions for big problems. The problem with Hubert is he is a workaholic who does not admit he is one. Pressed with a work related problem that requires a quick solution, Hubert forgoes lunch and supper to the detriment of his date who flares up feeling she has been let down if not embarrassed. Muriel storms away towards the Christmas holiday when Hubert had 'stood' her up. He follows her to apologise, he gets horribly lost. To make a long story short, Hubert ends up with his Mercedes Benz Brabus at the bottom of a lake when he had tried avoiding a farm tractor that had seized in the road. In the first instance, why did he cut a corner at speed? What if there had been oncoming traffic at speed as well? Roxanne has speed and charm with a heavier body built than Muriel. She towers over her rival yet she has the farm grown elegance and style that separates her from the urban folk. Though she is plain to attractive without being an eye spotter for the men, she has charm and elegance. She is a simple and true girl. Roxanne is disappointed that yet another Christmas has come and snow too without any change to her disrupted dating pattern. She is upstairs looking out into the winter depths at night when she sees lights careering, spinning and then she thinks a vehicle has landed in the lake. She speeds towards the scene. She has the speed, timing and agility of a race driver though she is a systems engineer at British Telecom. She yanks Hubert out of the water. He is her family's present for Christmas as her father insists he has to spend Christmas with him to atone for his tractor. Who will win Hubert's heart between the two girls and why has it to be 8 120-kilometres away to decide in the midst of one million five hundred thousand hectares of wild land?