Deep winter, 1935, and David Haph has fallen from a ledge in the mountains of western Massachusetts, shattering his lower leg. Virtually everything he needs to survive a freezing, hostile environment is unreachable high above. Crippled, alone and without a map, how will he possibly negotiate two miles of mountains and wilderness and find the nearest town? David blames his overbearing father for his plight. He hadn't killed his father twenty years earlier, but what he did do that day he has utterly suppressed. Now, fighting for his life, David relives the struggles of his life: his father's...