影片根据泰·加涅发表的的文章《高处:雪地里的脚印引发了一场温情救援》(High Places: Footprints i n the Snow Lead to an Emotional Rescue,暂译)改编,讲述了母亲、护士兼登山爱好者帕姆·贝尔斯的故事,当她独自跋涉华盛顿山,被暴风雪困住时,她遇到了陌生的登山者并为其展开了一场大胆的营救。
Juan Debré has spent a lifetime playing a hero in a popular TV series. When he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he withdraws from his everyday life. Aware of having wasted his life, he escapes from a film shoot to travel to Brussels. In the land of his childhood hero, Tintin, he seeks to answer a question that has haunted him all his life: ?Could I be a real-life hero??