"Strangers and
loners, isolated geographically and emotionally from the rest of the world, they learn to bond as soul mates.
One night in the sub-zero cold, huddled together for warmth under a horse blanket,
they also find each other physically, and
the emotional impact of
their first sexual encounter opens a floodgate of need, release, desire, shame and violence that haunts
them for
the next two decades."