Stunned by personal tragedy and exhausted from overwork, novelist Onida Burke flees to her secluded cabin in the Appalachian Mountains to seek solace among the verdant peaks. Under the affectionate-but watchful-eye of her nurse, Delma Clack, Onida struggles to regain the hope and confidence she once knew. When a ghostly lover appears and takes her to new heights of ecstasy, she is unsure if he is real or a phantom embodied from the drifting mists. His factory destroyed in a raging fire, entrepreneur Liam Cannan works feverishly to salvage what he can from the ruins. Throughout his ordeal, his thoughts keep returning to the lifelike dreams in which he and a mysterious woman make passionate love until he awakens shaken and exhausted. He embarks on a quest to find this woman no matter who or what stands in his way. Is Liam's search in vain? Will Onida find happiness in her beloved mountains? The answer lies somewhere in the all-encompassing mountain mists.