A buried family secret comes back to haunt a young engaged couple. In the dead of night, the phone rings in the missing persons unit of the Ottawa Police. A brutal blizzard is howling, and a wealthy social activist has not heard from his fiancÔee in over tweny-four hours. Friends, family and police are mobilized to search the snowbound city. The young doctor comes to believe that his partner is fleeing for her life, possibly from his own family. When a frozen body is found in the snow, just blocks from the man's home, Green knows that someone is conspiring to keep the truth hidden.