A young woman goes to work in 1933 leaving her three year old son home the night of a late spring snowstorm, and her son goes missing. Almost a decade later and another storm hits the area around that time of year, and a journalist sets out to cover the late snowstorm only to uncover secrets about the missing boy. While I loved the story, as a mother, I struggled a bit with some of the choices Vera made in search for her son.