A woman has disappeared. The day after a snowstorm, her car is found on a road leading to a plateau with with nothing but a few scattered farms. The gendarmes have nothing to go on, while five individuals well know they have something to do with the woman's disappearance. They all keep their secrets to themselves, but no one suspects that the whole story began far from these windswept wintry peaks: on another continent, in the burning sun, where poverty doesn't stop desire from taking the law into its own hands.
A character jump-falls into a deep drop, it is not shown but implied upon the sound his body makes and the time it takes to cause that sound that he dies due to the fall
The central character connecting them all together begins the movie dead, only seen then as a corpse and in flashbacks of what led to her death, she has a relationship with a man and an affair with a younger woman.