The structure of the film consists of several subplots which all revolve around an intertwined cast of characters.

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Recently married Alex, 39, a lawyer by schooling, but currently an unsuccessful playwright, and Alice, his younger wife by about five years, invite three other couples to Alex's parents cabin in the snowy woods for New Year's weekend.

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Eva, a massage therapist and the divorced mother of a teenage girl, attends a party in Pacific Palisades with her friends, married couple Will and Sarah.

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