A girl's whole world fractures over an animal's broken leg, and the show refuses to rush past it. Annette doesn't rebuild her friendship with Lucien through a single apology, she lives through months of silence, misunderstanding, and the kind of quiet grief that only a child can feel. The Swiss valleys in this show are not pretty backdrops; they're the actual landscape where small people have to figure out how to forgive, and forgiveness takes the full 48 episodes to earn.

Twelve-year-old Annette grows up in a poor family in a small village in the Swiss Alps, where she dearly loves and looks after her five-year-old brother Dani, whose birth cost their mother her life. Her best friend is Lucien. Their friendship reaches a crisis when Dani is badly hurt in an accident that Lucien did not mean to cause, and the boy is left with a limp. A long stretch of hardship follows. Annette must find the strength to forgive, while Lucien tries to show her and the villagers his worth and hopes to find a cure for Dani. Bit by bit, the two begin to mend their broken friendship in this gentle drama of village life, adapted from Patricia Mary St. John's children's book Treasures of the Snow.