Teddy Orloff is a baker, whose home and community have been rocked by scarlet fever. His children are stricken and the home under quarantine. As a baker he cannot stay with his family yet he finds a way to slip in at night. Teddy's wife sends him on a mission to find a perfect onion to make latkes-a certain cure for the fever. Forging into an ice storm, Teddy's quest grows weird. It is the perfect onion, though, he must acquire, whether it exists or not.