1973, suburban Connecticut: middle class families experimenting with casual sex, drink, etc., find their lives out of control.
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to purue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawer of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the wort in a century. Things get bad...

1973 State of Connecticut , USA , Thanksgiving Day is about to come , an Ice Storm upcoming . Middle-aged couples tired of ordinary and boring family life , her husband Ben • Hood ( Kevin , decorated • Klein ) has been lured neighbor , Janet • Harper and his wife ( Joan & # 8226 ; Allen ornaments ) lies to her husband, already impatient . Son Paul ( Tobey , decorated • Maguire ) obsessed with who most edge of the school girls . Daughter Wendy ( Christina • Ridge ) interested in the Watergate hearings on TV . Ice Storm of the night , a husband and wife went to a friend's house to attend a cocktail party , cocktail parties is an important part of the game for the room key . After the reception , each wife and other family men to form a new love . And their son was rushed to the face of a temptation and test , the daughter being intoxicated in sexual games with the boy next door ...