The story takes place in the cold Alaska. For a long time, Paul (Robin Williams)'s wife Margaret (Holly Hunter) has suffered from depression. Unable to bear to see his wife in such pain, Paul decided to take his wife to warm California, hoping that this trip would relieve his wife's symptoms. However, Paul's dry wallet made this beautiful plan fall into an indefinite delay. In order to solve this problem, he came up with a bad idea. Paul decided to exploit the insurance money. First, he needed a corpse, and then lied that the corpse was his long-lost brother, and finally received the insurance money. Fortunately, Paul really found a corpse, but troubles followed one after another-how to hide it from his wife, how to transport the corpse to where he wanted, and Paul, who was busy and exhausted, did not know that the real danger was approaching him.