In her frantic flight to escape a misconception about her husband in 1910, Laurie Davis boards the eastbound train from Everett, Washington. She meets an elderly lady with whom she shares her life story of family tragedies, newspaper career and her insane jealousy. She realizes she has to return and is trapped by snow slides at Wellington on Stevens Pass. That terrible tragedy of the Wellington Disaster unfolds with Laurie in the midst of all the unbearable anguish train passengers and employees endured.