Two cousins, Dylan and Gina, travel to their grandmother’s cabin to sort through her belongings after her death. Along the way, they notice that the area has now been piled with junk and trailers. Dylan remembers the stories his grandmother used to tell them of the Woodwalker, a spirit of nature who punished those that hurt or wasted the forest. His little sister Shae once claimed to have seen it, but she’s been missing for eight years. The cousins visit their grandmother’s next-door neighbor, who tells them about the meth addiction sweeping through their county. The next day, the cousins get a visit from the next-door neighbor’s nephew, Ray, who used to play with them as kids. Dylan subtly asks about the meth problem, and his training in the military and as a corrections officer makes him think that Ray is acting suspicious. Ray mentions a trailer in the woods hidden from sight where people cook the meth, but no one is able to find it. He also tells Dylan his aunt’s version of the Woodwalker story, how one night moonshiners burnt down some of the forest and were found later dead with hickory branches for bones. Dylan and Gina continue cleaning out the house when Gina finds Shae’s body, still preserved and looking as though she's asleep, upstairs in the attic. In a note, their grandmother tells them how Shae found the meth lab and was going to report it to the police, but the Woodwalker killed her by strangulation before she could. Their grandmother thinks it did so because it wanted the meth addiction to run its course and kill all the users so it could no longer harm the land, but she thinks there’s a chance Shae could be brought back. Dylan and Gina take Shae’s body with them through the forest to find the trailer and wait for the men inside to emerge. When they do, Dylan goes to confront them with his shotgun and sees that Ray is one of them. He kills one and shoots Ray with a stun shot while Gina sets up Shae’s body in the forest. In order for the Woodwalker to revive her, Dylan has to replace Ray’s bones with the hickory branches, just as his grandfather did to the moonshiners years before.  After the deed is done, Dylan and Gina wait for Shae to revive. When she finally wakes up, she’s weak and disoriented, and Dylan asks Gina to take her back to the cabin. As it turns out, part of the deal is that someone has to continue the meth operation until all the users are killed, and he now must take on that responsibility.