When a terrified family flees a desolate southern New Zealand farmhouse, two cynical scientists and a young psychic are sent to investigate their claims of a haunting. There they encounter a powerful spirit that will protect the house's secrets at all costs.

　　根据爱沙尼亚女人厄娜的记忆改编，讲述了大批民众被放逐到西伯利亚的故事和这批民众如何在饥饿、寒冷、冷漠、失去友情和自由中生存，当所有的希望消失殆尽，他们又如何继续活下去的故事。