One night in the late 1960s, an American couple vacationing at a lake in Germany gets split up, filling both with dread and fear as they are pushed to their limits trying to reunite.

After one of her father's notebooks is recovered from an icecap, a woman recalls the love story between her mother, a rural woman who always wanted adventure, and her father, an adventurous explorer who disappeared on a voyage to the Arctic.

When a family finds a child in their yard buried in snow and suffering from frostbite, they try to warm him up to save his life. The child eventually awakes and tells them that his family is in danger, and so two men and a boy venture out to save their neighbors, if they can make it through the deep snow without freezing.

An imaginative, bullied young boy and an elderly, suicidal cancer patient save each other from freezing to death one day in December.

A pack of hunting dogs, their male owner, and their female trainer travel through a secret passage that exists underneath a thin layer of ice covering a dried-out Saskatchewan lake basin.

A woman remembers how she met her unusual husband in a ski lodge and the series of events that led them to their current home in the South Pole.

A father witnesses fish floating in mid-air for nearly a minute on the lake near his home, and suspects strange goings on in the mountain just beyond it. When his son mysteriously vanishes from prison without a trace, the father endeavors into the mountain to get answers.

Three boys rent a canoe in Iowa and spend the day riding down a river. As the long and strenuous journey stretches into the night, their friendship, trust, and determination are tested.

A middle aged man becomes the talk of the town when he shares a crazy story regarding his missing friend and creatures that live beneath a water pump house.

When a paddle-boating excursion goes wrong, a family makes one final sweet memory to cling onto during the years of separation and sadness that follow.