Mary, a single mother of an 6-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy working at a vertinary clinic, asks Mike, a long-time patient, for a favor: deliver a load of firewood to her remote home. Mike's act of kindness and a growing bond with Mary and her kids soon puts him between the mother and her very violent ex-husband. Tony is determined to take back his property and will hurt anyone who gets in his way.