The man goes out to his father’s old cabin which is now in shambles. He gets out of his pickup truck and reminisces on how he and his father built it when he was young, about fifty-five years ago. Since then, the land has been bequeathed to an environmentalist foundation, as the man’s stepmother donated it, punishing him for participating in the Vietnam War. Now, in his older age, with his father and two mothers buried, he can only be alone here. He checks all of his devices and sees that there’s no signal out here in the woods. He wonders when the other guys will come to kill him, as he knows they’ll always be looking for him. In the meantime, he sets up a generator and thinks about yesterday’s shootout which killed six people, after which he grabbed his essential things from his house and hit the road. He goes to sleep in a tent with a rifle next to him.

The hitman rifles through the man’s house in order to find evidence of where he could have gone. He looks through pictures and letters but finds nothing. However, he founds a mountainscape in one of the pictures, which gives him a clue. While his henchman continues turning the house upside-down, the hitman puts on John Denver and listens while drinking a beer to calm his nerves. He thinks about what happened yesterday: he, the hitman, and a third guy successfully killed four guys during a drug deal, but a girl catches them in the act and spots the third guy’s face, as he isn’t wearing a mask; the third guy then shoots the girl, after which the man shoots the third guy. Now, sitting in his house, the hitman wonders why the man didn’t shoot him as well. He thinks about how he’s been tasked by his boss to find the man and kill him in order to redeem himself for running away yesterday.

At the cabin, the man sees a dog, which comes up to him every so often through the days as he works. Slowly but surely, the dog comes up to the man after a few weeks, and he sees that the dog has been wounded, presumably after a near-fatal fight. One night, he gives the dog a slice of rabbit, which makes the dog come back for more each time. Soon enough, they become very close as he works on the cabin, which is now structurally sound and clean enough to live in. Months later, the names the dog and sleeps beside him. He tells the dog about how he used to use his rifle in the Vietnam War but eventually returned to a country that did not reward his service. Now, he lives with the guilt of what he’s done for evil. Outside, in his tent, they hear the wolves. Soon, they’ll get to sleep inside the cabin.

The hitman, his boss, and his crew—ten men in total—are driving their cars to the cabin. They talk about how cold it is and how there’s no signal out here. Thanks to a private investigator, they were able to track down the cabin from the letters and pictures taken from the man’s house. The hitman, troubled at the whole situation, is asked by the boss if there’s something wrong. He says there isn’t and continues driving.

At the cabin, the man is told by his dog that something is up. He then hears cars approaching. Quickly, he grabs his rifle, some night-vision binoculars, and heads up to a clearing where he gets a perfect view of the cabin. The ten men then get out of their cars and lock down the cabin. They slash the tires of the man’s car and hope to lure him back by burning the cabin down. However, the man starts shooting and immediately takes down two guys. After a while, the boss chuckles, as he sees all of the man’s shots missing. However, the hitman realizes soon enough what the man is actually doing: he isn’t shooting the henchmen but rather the tires of their cars. He tells his boss that all of them are now trapped in the woods with the man. For the rest of the night, the sound of his rifle rings.