Old friends Shelley Lena and Pearl have reached their limit with the festive preparation that has always fallen to them and five days before Christmas they've booked a mini break. . . without their families. Up until Christmas Eve they'll be sipping prosecco in the Highlands while their kids wrap bacon around 100 chipolatas and their partners brave the supermarkets. It's exactly what they need. . . until they're snowed in. Facing the prospect of Christmas 500 miles from home each woman is forced to confront her real reasons for needing to escape: the fiance with the obnoxious family; the son's new girlfriend who is taking over their home; the family who take their mother for granted all year round. . . Will the friends make it home before Christmas day? And if they do can they really go back to their old lives?