The year is 1877. For the residents of a town called Cedar Creek, deep in the Washington territory, the winter has been particularly brutal. Including to local woodsman and hunter, Alexander Gates. So the local sheriff and his deputies decide to offer him a job that'll pay well; leading them through a treacherous mountainside in the dead of winter while perusing a bloodthirsty gang of outlaws. With no choice but to accept, Alexander reluctantly agrees. Unfortunately, the job goes horribly wrong and now the fate of the whole town may rest on their shoulders. Because something much more terrible than a gang of lowly criminals waits out there among the trees, and it's very hungry.