When eight strangers take refuge in a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard in post-Civil War Wyoming, their conflicts with one another threaten to erupt into deadly violence.
TJ Brothers, a man who has labored most of his life in the shadow of his dead hero brother and stoic father, tries to find hope in the constant struggle of his existence on the hardscrabble Wyoming cattle ranch he stands to inherit.
Duff MacCallister, a stranger from the Scottish Highlands, is starting a new life in the Wyoming frontier when he kills a bandit during a bank robbery, sending him after the rest of the gang before they return for a bloody act of revenge against the defenseless town.