El policía forense Paul Herzfeld encuentra dentro de un cadáver una cápsula metálica que contiene una serie de dígitos y el nombre de su hija. Al llamarle para comprobar qué está pasando, esta le pide auxilio, pues ha sido raptada por un asesino en serie sediento de juegos macabros. Aquí empieza una carrera contrarreloj para Paul en afán de rescatar a su hija.
The violent death of his girlfriend Kara throws Chief Inspector Haller completely off track. Haller himself went blind in the incident and was released from duty. However, inconsistencies cause him to investigate the murder of Kara on his own.
Set in 1986. After their train is hit by an avalanche in the alps, 30 year old Greta and five strangers find themselves trapped in the last car of a train, buried underneath the snow. On the radio they learn that a rescue operation is under way, but for some reason the last compartment seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. As we follow their attempts to escape their icy prison, we begin to understand that there is more to the compartment than meets the eye...