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    "annotation": "<p><em>All of them are friends. One of them is a killer.</em><br /><span>During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they&rsquo;ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands&mdash;the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.</span><br /><span>They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.</span><br /><span>Two days later, on New Year&rsquo;s Day, one of them is dead.</span><br /><span>The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group&rsquo;s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year&rsquo;s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps.</span><br /><span>Now one of them is dead . . . and another of them did it.</span><br /><span>Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?</span></p>",
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