Buddy Adams, a minor Hollywood talent agent, returns to his Indiana boyhood home to bury his widowed mother. As a crippling blizzard swirls around him, he becomes embroiled in a struggle to subvert his California agency into a drug conduit for La Eme, the Mexican mafia. While trying to get his mother in the ground, Buddy discovers a disturbing family secret that his parents had hidden from him-a past that challenges his deepest feelings. Trapped in a frozen alien landscape, Buddy is plunged into a struggle that takes him from Indiana to California where the future of his talent agency, and...