A single mother living in upstate New York, close to the Canadian border, struggles to cope after her gambling husband abandons her and takes all their money. But her fortune changes when she meets another lone parent, a woman from a Mohawk reservation, who persuades her to help her smuggle illegal immigrants across a frozen river into America. Drama, starring Melissa Leo and Misty Upham.

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.