Dec. 20, 1980 was a frigid Minnesota night, and nineteen-year-old Jean Hilliard was carefully driving toward her parents’ home in Lengby. Then disaster struck. Her car skidded on some ice and careened off the road into a ditch, leaving her stranded in the kind of cold that bites right through to your bones. In the blink of an eye, the teenager was in a life-or-death survival situation.
Dressed in just a jacket, pants, and cowboy boots – hardly a winter survival kit – she’s faced with a tough decision. Stay in place and hope someone else is driving down this isolated road that will help her, or try her best to make it a few miles to her friend’s house.
