En un tranquilo pueblo de montaña, los padres de Cindy son asesinados y su Navidad es robada por una sanguinaria figura verde vestida con un traje rojo de Papá Noel.

Newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer reluctantly returns to her rural California hometown to investigate the harassment of local vineyard workers and uncorks a tangled web of crime and corruption behind wine country's shiny façade.