Donald Farrow is a successful lawyer on his annual winter holiday at Catskill Lodge. Prompted by a Christmas card from a childhood friend, Farrow recalls the tumultuous events leading up to their last day together. Farrow enters the lost world of his past populated by his inseparable friend and three others, who test him as no one else could have. Farrow's narrative strives for the detachment his life demands, but truths he has long suppressed are exposed, and the man revealed must confront his self-deception.