When a day hike for people 60 and older has to turn back midway through their hike in Sequoia National Forrest, the hiking leader finds himself at the base of the trail without his wife and without his former friend, both of whom had accompanied him on the trail. With the company of an over-eager widow, the man finds himself contacting search and rescue and waiting to see what morning will bring.

A backcountry guide in British Columbia generally turns a blind eye as his clientele traffic drugs into the United States — but he begins to realize that his newest clients are traveling with cargo far more dangerous than drugs.

After a six-year-old boy goes missing in the woods in rural America, a town gathers together to search for him, only to lose hope as the days draw on and the weather grows colder.

While hiking with his wife and mother-in-law, a man stumbles upon the wrong guys.

A Montana police deputy accidentally crosses paths with two violent escaped felons in the middle of a forest wildfire.

A Kentucky community gains national attention when bears learn how to start fires. A curious man attempts to learn more about the phenomenon while caring for his nephew and aging mother.

An elderly widower from Atlanta works for the United States Forest Service to escape his grief. In Big Bend National Park, he meets a woman who makes him feel young and alive.

Two American soldiers lost in a Japanese jungle must slowly come to accept their mortality.

A group of friends experienced in river navigation brave an infamously dangerous set of rapids, though some of them are more thrill-seeking than others.

A group of white men establish ties with a village of indigenous peoples in Alaska after their U.S. Army Station is built nearby. When one of the indigenous men goes hunting and begins to see strange lights and unfamiliar objects, he wonders whether he should warn the white men of potential danger.