Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her little son goodnight and goes to work at a local hotel. In the morning she discovers that the city is buried under snow, and her son has disappeared. Not far from the house, in a snowdrift, Vera finds her beloved stuffed teddy bear Daniel—but there are no other traces on the icy road.
However, Vera is not the kind to give up. She will do everything to find the missing child!
Seattle, 2010. Reporter Clare Oldridge writes an article about a crippling citywide May Day snowstorm. It turns out that something similar happened almost eighty years ago—and during the snowfall, a boy vanished. Clare takes up the case without much enthusiasm, but soon discovers that Vera Ray’s story is intertwined with her own fate in the most unexpected way…