Nathan is happily engaged in his playboy lifestyle with girlfriend Jessica and best friend and ski buddy, Travis. His plans for a ski holiday are abruptly derailed when his parents decide to take a lengthy vacation and he is expected to return to the family homestead to babysit his elementary-aged siblings. He, and his younger brother and sister, grudgingly accept their plight only to shortly discover that their parents will never return. A plane crash has left them as orphans.