Astrid Sonnschein's mom disappears without trace, leaving her daughter to negotiate miles and miles of dangerous forest to reach safety. Then the woman-hunt begins. Astrid and her boyfriend Mike track her mom from San Francisco to a spooky castle in darkest Transylvania, meeting several unexpected relatives on the way. It gets worse, as civil war has broken out in Romania, and our intrepid couple must escort two little girls to their grandma who lives at the other end of the warzone, at the same time trying to build their own shaky relationship.