When beautiful Nicole Saint Aubin disappears, her small-time gangster boyfriend is determined to find her no matter what. His dogged search soon leads him into a strange supernatural world and face-to-face with a long-concealed mystery.

Manhattanite Catherine O’Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.