Mud Season - Definition
1) The fifth season of the year which falls sometime between winter and spring in states such as Vermont where most of the roads are dirt, winters are long and cold and the permafrost goes down about three feet. What happens is the roads begin to thaw and as they do the dirt turns into mud and sooner or later everyone gets stuck.
2) An Award Winning feature film about a Vermont woodsman who falls in love with a Chinese woman and their figurative sinking in the mud of life just as their emotional winters begin to thaw.