On her morning run, seventeen year old Katie discovers a frozen body lying on the snowy forest trail. The story goes back three months to trace the events leading up to the tragedy. Who is the victim? Is it Mike, the import car fanatic who worships his older brother, Frankie, a hotshot graduate who’s gone East and developed big spending habits fuelled by poker winnings? Is it Jay - the budding musician whose father wants him to be an NHL player even though he hates hockey? Is it Kim, the math whiz and talented artist whose mother recently died and left her alone with a cold and abusive father? Is it Nick? Forced to be a parent to his two young sisters while his single mom goes off for days at a time and drowns herself in booze . Gambling changes their lives until events spiral out of control and in the final showdown one of them will find love, one will be a hero, one will be the victim of a near-fatal accident and somebody will die on the snowy forest track. Set in a Canadian prairie city, this story explores the complexity of family conflict and its impact on teens who are searching for love, acceptance and identity.