Dramatic as it was, the experience didn't solve Nielsen's personal problems. (This is, after all, a true story. Fiction might have ended differently.) But it did give the former emergency room doctor the perspective that come to those who ave taken a long, hard look into the abyss.
"Ice Bound" is a family story. Or rather, the story of one family being torn apart by emotional abuse and infidelity, while another pulls together to deal with a serious illness in its ranks. it's also a cancer survivor's story, with all the medical minutiae and soul-searching that suggests. Most of all, though, "Ice Bound" is the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things undr some of the most difficult conditions on the planet.