Resigned naturalist and wolf master Russell Core voyages to the edge of progress in northern Alaska at the arguing of Medora Slone, a youthful mother whose child was murdered by a pack of wolves. As Core endeavors to enable Medora to find the wolves who took her child, a peculiar and unsafe relationship creates between the two desolate spirits. In any case, when Medora's better half Vernon returns home from the Iraq War, the news of his youngster's passing touches off a vicious chain of occasions. As nearby cop Donald Marium races to stop Vernon's wrathful frenzy, Core is constrained on an unsafe odyssey into the core of murkiness.
