A young British soldier's career takes a nosedive after he suffers the effects of a horrific incident during a tour of Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. He decides to leave the army for good, turning his back on everyone including his beautiful German girlfriend and travels to the Cascade Mountain wilderness of Washington State where he seeks to build a new life with a companion.
Unknown to him his new partner has brought with him a host of problems in the form of the irresistible Kathleen Woolf and her presence has devastating consequences.
The young man is forced to flee into the wilderness to escape a police manhunt only to become the quarry of a much more dangerous creature. He is pushed to the very limit of his endurance and forced to use all of his army training and ingenuity to survive.
Just when he thinks things couldn't get any worse, they do.
