Major Jonathon Carson seeks out his lost son in the icy tundra of Las Vegas; Ricky Di Santos finds himself meeting an old flame in the battlefield of a snow-covered Los Angeles; Jed Giffin catches up with his self-centered sister in a freezing Dallas; and Sinead O'Brien takes to the frozen seas of Miami with a friend from her former life. Frozen Wasteland looks at the suffering caused in these very different settings and examines how people cope in an environment where each day is a struggle for survival.