Dissatisfied with the drudgery of homesteading and growing increasingly disconnected from his family, Gabriel forsakes the farm for a life of higher adventure. Thus begins a forbidding trek into a terrain of austere beauty, a journey begun in hope, but soon laced with danger and propelled by a cast of brutal characters.
Gabriel's decision to leave behind the tedium of homesteading and his growing sense of disconnection from his family leads him on a perilous quest into an unforgiving yet awe-inspiring terrain.