In the Ural Mountains, nine students go on a ski hike, but never return. Local investigators must piece together what happened to them when their bodies are found a month later.
A reckless wealthy Russian youth is arrested street racing while on drugs. His father pulls strings to get him a training job in the police, instead of a prison sentence, under threat he'll lose his inheritance otherwise.
Nine days before the group's death, the hikers pass through a small village where they learn about the region's Indigenous Mansi people, who have named the mountain they're headed toward the Dead Mountain.
