In 1958, young Mickey Swager journies from Montreal to a sanatorium in the mountains with his mother and father. He's cold, literally and figuratively, surrounded by people indifferent to his plight. He has to remain at the tuberculosis sanatorium, alone and afraid. Seventeen years later, Mickey has grown courageous and tough. He gets involved in the murder of a DEA assassin amidst drug smuggling and connections to a Buffalo, New York, crime...