After a traumatic experience Edee Holzer (Robin Wright) is in the midst of therapy, revealing to the therapist that she doesn’t like to be around people because she doesn’t think it’s right that they share in her pain. Wanting to escape, she leaves the city she lives in and moves to Wyoming where she purchases a small remote cabin and resolves to live in solitude without any modern conveniences connecting her to the outside world, including telephones or cars.
Initially, she struggles with basic provisions including chopping firewood and fishing. When a black bear enters her cabin, eats her food and destroys much of the rest of her supplies while she hides in her outhouse, she reaches her breaking point. Without a fire for heat or food to eat, she tries to hunt but cannot bring herself to shoot a deer she has in her sights. Overwhelmed, she attempts to take her life by shooting herself with the hunting rifle, stopping short when she remembers her sister Emma (Kim) pleading not to hurt herself.
