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In an uncharted future, two hardened souls meet and confront each other with the things they have done and what they have become.

R.D. Womack II's patiently paced thriller has been hailed, as thrilling as it is beautiful - Brian Corsetti, HollyScoop. Follow Lester; a privileged underachiever who awakes to find himself kidnapped and stranded in a snowbound cabin. Along with Viviana, another captive, the two must survive the brutal onslaught of winter and outsmart their kidnapper; a sniper calling himself Wolf. With a blizzard bearing down on them the pair embarks on a deadly game of survival. Will the pair find a way through the winter storm to freedom, or will the mountain become their icy grave

故事發生在冰島的房地產狂熱時期，一位加拿大籍的醫學生從患有思覺失調的外婆那裡繼承了一棟老房子。許多房地產開發商都催促她賣掉房子，她收到一條神秘的消息，迫使她調查家族秘辛。她發現了一段隱藏許久的家庭悲劇，外婆的死也存在諸多疑點，但她不知道自己正惹禍上身。

伊欧最初是待在一支巡回表演的马戏团，那是它从小到大唯一的归属，后来它被迫离开，跋涉在波兰和意大利交界的乡间时又逃走，既遭受到残酷的状况，也遭遇到温暖的情况，而在这一路当中，它观察到人性的愚蠢和胜利。在伊欧的旅途中，它同时受到各种人物的帮助和阻碍，包括年轻的意大利牧师 (洛伦佐·祖佐洛 饰) 、女伯爵 (伊莎贝尔·于佩尔 饰) 及喧闹的波兰足球队等。

斯苔芬尼（Elzbieta Starostecka 饰）虽然出身平凡，但拥有着聪慧的头脑和善良的内心。她前往马修公爵（Czeslaw Wollejko 饰）家中担任家庭教师的职务，在一次偶然中邂逅了马修公爵的孙子瓦尔迪马（莱赛克· 泰来钦斯基 Leszek Teleszynski 饰）。斯苔芬尼不同寻常的气质和谈吐一下子就吸引了瓦尔迪马，令他坠入了爱河之中。　　然而，这段贵族和平民之间的感情很快就遭到了瓦尔迪马的姑妈的强烈反对，她看中了一位名叫梅拉尼（安娜·迪姆纳 Anna Dymna 饰）的贵族小姐，认为她才是成为瓦尔迪马的妻子的最佳人选。然而，马修公爵对这段感情显然有着不同的看法，因为他年轻时也经历过同样的抉择。

The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black).　　The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful.　　This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz.　　Plot　　As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his help (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)