Displaced by a war they do not understand, two sisters strike out into the world to find their parents. Portia and Helena wake to a lonely house in a bitter winter desperate for food and their family. The soldiers who ravaged their village have disappeared when the girls step into a blizzard of uncertainty. In the wild, the sisters encounter love and death, comfort and violence, courage and treachery. Their world comes apart, and the refugee sisters hold onto each other as long as they can.
