An innocent conversation triggers a series of irreversible events, and one after another, lives topple like dominoes. Rapids of Winter is the true story of a professional woman, mother and wife, who becomes embroiled in plots of murder, suicide threats, car accidents, burglary, fire, and death, but through it all she discovers the will to triumph, and the unbreakable bond of family.

Each episode chronicles the shocking, complex and volatile events that sweep her and two other families into the rapids of change. In a unique series of tales, the epic story unfolds of a family caught in a current of clandestine reversals.