In the frostbitten town of Moosejaw, nestled in

the boreal wilderness, social worker Elise Duval

arrives to investigate a spate of missing

persons linked to the local hockey league, the

Moosejaw Maroons. The town’s only source of

income is the annual Northern Cup tournament,

where teams from across the North compete for

prize money and regional prestige.

Elise discovers that the Maroons’ star forward,

Jax Tremain, is not just a local hero but a key

figure in a clandestine agreement between the

town council and a private mining company. The

deal promises jobs and infrastructure in

exchange for the town’s mineral rights. But the

cost is steep: every year, one young man must be

"offloaded" to the company’s Arctic

labor camps—

disappearances Elise has been quietly

documenting.

The Maroons’ coach, a stoic explayer named

Dwayne MacLeod, becomes Elise’s reluctant ally.

His daughter, a promising goaltender, was last

seen heading north with a truck full of supplies.

As Elise digs deeper, she finds evidence hidden

in the ice rink’s scoreboard—a coded message

linking the team’s wins to the number of

disappearances.

Jax, pressured by both the council and the

mining company, resists Elise’s efforts to

expose the truth. Their confrontations are tense,

marked by icy glares and unspoken tension, but

when Elise saves Jax from a staged accident

meant to silence him, their dynamic shifts.

The climax unfolds during the Northern Cup final.

As the Maroons face their rivals, Elise reveals

the truth to the crowd via a public address

system, using the moment of national pride to

shine a light on the town’s dark secret. The

game halts midplay, and the town is forced to

reckon with its complicity.

Jax, torn between loyalty to his team and the

truth, helps Elise smuggle the missing men back

to Moosejaw. The council is arrested, the mining

deal collapsed, and the Maroons are disbanded.

In the aftermath, Jax and Elise stand on the

frozen lake where the first disappearance

occurred, the snow falling softly around them. A

new kind of game begins—not on ice, but in the

quiet fight to rebuild what was lost.