The Carlsons - mom Melanie, dad Dave and their three teenage daughters Lauren, Alex and Chelsey - of Northern Ontario go through a time travel experiment to experience what winter life was like for the typical Canadian family through six decades, from the beginning of the 1940s to the end of the 1990s. Their own home is their time travel machine where it is gutted, redecorated and re-equipped with items true to the era through which they are living. They are given a manual on how they are supposed to live each decade, that manual and their other guides which they are to follow even when the cameras aren't rolling. Can they survive winter life without smart phones, computers and even in the earlier decades refrigerators, televisions and dishwashers, let alone assume the roles they are expected to play as mom, dad and teenage girls of the era?
—Huggo