The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog and in-laws from Poland squeeze its walls in 30-below-zero weather. One of the children suffers from asthma, one of the daughters is lovesick, mom desperately tries to stay happy and dad is oh so thirsty. The Norwegians don′t understand the Poles, not the Poles the Norwegians, an argument breaks out with their Swedish neighbors who have come over for a toast, and the tension can now be cut with a knife. This is a powerful and tragicomic reality-based story full of black humor and irony, which develops into an engrossing and moving drama.