This might be unrelated, but your description reminded me a lot of the music video for Winter, a song by German goth/rock band Unheilig. The distant family is

This might be unrelated, but your description reminded me a lot of the music video for Winter, a song by German goth/rock band Unheilig. The distant family is a standard trope, but I thought there was something particularly Germanic about it in this video. https://vimeo.com/150976814 https://vimeo.com/150976814