The dangers of a chosen life in a remote cabin off-grid in the Kentucky wilderness are much as they were in the days of the mountain men of an earlier age despite the technological benefits of modern hunting rifles, satellite phones, and construction machinery - scarce game, hunger, angry bears, and deep snow for starters - but a violent encounter in a bar sparks events that will endanger Brady Atkins' life and that of the young girl who befriends him. In the end, other human beings including the police, offer by far the most lethal problems Brady must overcome if he's to survive.