Seen wandering through the grim fog and pale moonlit wilderness of the Swiss Alps as a tiny speck among the trees and rocks, a man (Don McKellar) reaches his isolated hotel destination only to find there are no rooms available for the night. It being Christmas, some time in the space between the two world wars, even if he could procure another carriage (his previous ride abandoned him in the midst of the deep snow) the likelihood of finding lodging at the late hour is zero. The suspicious and strangely accented hotel porter (Ben Petrie, ubiquitous on Canadian screens in 2025) makes him an offer of dubious ethical quality. Another guest, an Englishwoman amateur mountain climber, has not returned to her room for several days,...
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