Jack Farrell has stumbled into a deal too good to be true. Rising swiftly from a low-level loan officer in Chicago to a successful investment banker in California representing the interests of a Central American entrepreneur, Farrell blinds himself to what he is really doing — laundering money for a drug cartel — until it is too late.
On the run from both Federal agents and the drug lords, Jack flees to the Utah mountains where he once skied as a student. With a new name and a face altered by plastic surgery, Farrell struggles to lose himself in the steep chutes and couloirs.
But his solitude is short-lived. Farrell is drawn to Inez Didier, the enigmatic French director who recruits him and a handful of fellow skiers for a documentary film that forces them to take mind-numbing risks.
