A woman from Wyoming befriends a couple, but when she has an accident on a ski trip with them, she realizes they are not who they say they are.

In 1970s America, a man invites his girlfriend, his daughter, and his daughter's girlfriend to the California Sierras for a weekend. As the group skis and picnics, the man considers his relationship with each woman and wonders how they interact with each other when he is not around.

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.

After World War II, as he skis in the mountains of Switzerland, a Jewish Frenchman recognizes a German man who once left him for dead in the snow as a child.