The husband, Haylett, and his two boys, Phil and Clover, enter the house where their mother, Mae, is cooking. Phil tells Mae that their friend Ray is eating at home tonight before he goes hunting alone tomorrow. The boys discuss the opening day of hunting season tomorrow and when Clover asks Mae for brown bread she tells him she’s too tired to make any, but he says he’ll wait up for it to finish baking because it brings him good luck. Their third son, Amando, pulls up in his truck and tells them a snow is coming.

At 3:30 a.m., the boys prepare for their day of hunting and the radio forecast predicts up to twelve inches of snow in the mountains. As Amando drinks his coffee moodily, Mae asks him if he’s thinking about getting back together with his wife Julia but he tells Mae they're divorcing. They take two trucks up the mountain and the family members in the car without Amando discusses his bad luck in losing his wife and they wonder what the reason for the separation is.

They drive down the road and see Ray's blue pickup parked in Julia’s driveway and they attempt to turn around to distract Amando before he drives up in his car and sees there's another man at his wife's house. They pull up next to Amando’s truck and Haylett lies that there’s already a crowd working at the place they’d wanted to hunt. When Amando says he’ll just turn around in Julia’s driveway, Haylett tries to dissuade him but Amando pushes on his accelerator and Phil fears that Amando will kill both Julia and Ray. Instead, they see Amando’s truck reappear behind them and he tells them he already knows.