A mother and a daughter struggle to climb the Swiss Alps while they dig into a past that the mother has spent years suppressing. The daughter was sexually abused by her stepfather as a child and lately she has begun to doubt whether her mom knew what was going on. The daughter’s persistence in trying to make her mom remember and take responsibility puts the two women’s relation to a hard test.
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