The disappearance of a college student from a small town in New Jersey begins a series of events that forever changes the life of town Sheriff Harold Jensen. The investigation takes the officer into the neighboring mountains, where a federally unrecognized Native American tribe makes its home. Jensen eventually comes into contact with dangerous ex-con and tribe member Phillip Kopus, whose return to the college town raises suspicions and threatens to disrupt the peace. After a tragedy and cover-up further divides the town and the tribe, Kopus takes advantage, forcing Jensen to compromise his principles or risk destroying his family.
