Just because you disappear it doesn't mean you're dead. Or that's what Tom, aged 8, has decided. He's now obsessed with only one thing: to find his mother who disappeared in a glacier in the Mont-Blanc range five years ago. Sent to live with his grandfather in the mountains, the city kid is ready to move mountains to find out the truth.
Tenacious, curious and imaginative, he'll force the adults around him to confront the family secrets that his stay brings out in the open, just as the great glacier throws uip the wreckage of the Malabar Princess, the Air India plane that crashed into the peak 50 years earlier, before it disappears forever into the snow and ice...