A 19-year-old man comes home one night to discover that his father, mother and autistic sister have all been savagely murdered. Could it be the $500,000 insurance money and the movie The Great Despisers that motivated the killers to perpetrate such violence?

Whistler, B.C. is a winter wonderland for the rich and trendy. Three people meet - the son of a wealthy Frenchman, a Vancouver businessman looking for investors and a real estate agent trying to sell a mountainside estate. Unbeknownst to them, they are the latest victims of a notorious international con man.