The small town of Boston in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands is cut off from the outside world by an unprecedented snow storm. Into this crisis drives a woman in a sports car and a bus full of local people heading for Harrismith.
Their savior is David Roth, a recent arrival in Boston and the owner of a grader, the only vehicle that can negotiate the snow-clogged roads. He saves the stranded travellers, but now they are trapped in town. Amongst them are two killers, desperate to get back to the stranded bus and the money they stole from the man they murdered. And there is the woman from the sports car, who isn’t quite who she claims she is. David plays the hero, believing that he is doing penance for his own painful secret, something so unforgivable that it would surely banish him from town if it ever came to light. But soon he is fighting for his life and the lives of his friends.