The holiday season has beset in Allabrese, and Charlemagne de la Cabernet is taking Diana and Tristan on a vacation to the annual Cabernet Expo set at the Tsarina Ski Resort just above the Russian town of Podoshva in the Ural Mountains. To bring the family together, Charlemagne’s sister, Allodia de la Cabernet, and her boyfriend, Georgy Saburov, join them on a trip where all seems too well for anything to go wrong. However, all is too well, and Charlemagne becomes suspicious of the resort when he sees Russian troops patrolling nearby out of fear that they intend to hijack the inventions at the expo. Theft is the least of his concerns though as a blackout plummets the family into darkness at their cabin, and they become stranded to who knows what lies beyond the confines of the resort. What could await the family in the Ural Mountains? Is it merely the Russian Army on executive orders? Or perhaps there is something more terrifying threatening the family’s survival in the great Russian outdoors…