In the heart of winter, four friends escape their hectic city lives for a brief weekend retreat at a cottage. Their destination is the remote town of Rideau Ferry, where the few remaining locals are not particularly welcoming to outsiders. As soon as the group of young, artistic individuals arrives, they are met with the unsettling stares of the neighboring residents, who are enduring the harsh winter in this isolated rural area. During their stay, the friends start to unravel sinister secrets about the people living nearby. The situation takes a terrifying turn when one of them is discovered brutally attacked on the porch of a nearby cottage, leading the group to realize that the reality around them is far from what it appears.