As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Among them is Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, who has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus.But others are interested in his success too: his grown-up children, at home for Christmas, have their eyes on the fortune he will make; Toni Gallo, forced to resign from the police and now head of Stanley"s security team, is betting her career on keeping the drug safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs are on their way to steal the antidote for a client already waiting - though what the client really has in As the storm worsens and the group is laid under siege by the elements, emotional sparks fly and dark secrets are revealed, threatening to drive Stanley and his family apart for ever.