Jesse Gibson, a widower is returning from a fishing trip with his old high school buddies, and finds himself thrust into peril as his plane goes down somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains. Those that live look to him for survival and medical attention, since he had been a medic in the military. Jesse and his new acquaintances quickly realize they were on the plane with some criminals that were being escorted by U.S. Marshals, and they also survived the crash.
Cut off from the world, they have to pull together and find their way out the woods without being killed by the criminals at large or swallowed by their environment. In the midst of trying to survive and keeping others alive Jesse may have stumbled across the next love of his life, Katy West.
They all cry, laugh and mourn together as their lives become more conjoined in the process of their journey. Unaware of what is taking place in their nation while they struggled to find their way out, they soon find that the world they left is nothing like the world they return to.