Inside the chalet, the girls and one man are busy with the Christmas decorations. They arrived in the afternoon in a minibus apart from Alice, Jenny and Alice’s lover for the season Alex, they drove up here the night before to get all the shopping done. Now, they are getting the inside decoration ready with some loud Christmas music, not noticing the lights of a car driving up to the house. “Alice, get your ass up the ladder to put the star on the tree, I have asked you twice and still you are so called busy with some angel hair.” “Hey, if you don’t calm down you can do it yourself.” “No way, you are the one who bought this ridiculous star, so you put it up.” “Okay,okay, I will, you wimp.”  Alice and Shane are quarreling playfully while the others are taking care of the lights in the tree, the lights on the stairs, the decorations on the chimney and the hot chocolate with liquor.

They are running late because they lost time during an argument with Alice. Alice has invited somebody without informing or asking the others if it is okay. And now it is too late because she is already on her way. Alice doesn’t mean any harm in it, she was just trying to help a friend but being the way she is, she has been too impulsive and now there is no way back. The gang was not pleased, to say it softly, when she gave them the news about her invitation to this extra guest. Shane was about to explode and was hold back by her wife, otherwise there could have been a murder in the house. Kit had stood up and left the room to scream to the pots and pans in the kitchen, Jenny had put her face in her hands and curled up on the sofa while she made angry noises in her hands. The rest of them got up, grabbed Alice by her neck, arms and legs, carried her outside and buried her under the snow. After these individual actions, they all sat down and discussed the matter, because what was done could not be turned around, they had to deal with it, so they better got up with a plan.