Péter, a big city cop, investigates a sex trafficking ring in Brassov. He has dedicated his life to finding women who have disappeared. He sees his sister, Juli, in every girl he saves. Juli disappeared twenty-two years ago in their hometown, Valan, in the ensuing chaos of the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Péter is obliged to return to the Transylvanian mining town after receiving a phone call that implies the body of his sister has been found among the pines on a snow-capped mountain.