Three total strangers - an escaped convict, an abused woman running from the men in her past, and a fiercely independent, homeless orphan with a great deal of baggage - agree to travel together as a family for one day to elude authorities. But Christmas Day 1861, finds them huddled together and snowbound in an abandoned shack at the end of the line in the mountains of Western Virginia, instead of a city with lots of room to get lost in the crowd as...