STORY

When their handcart company becomes bogged down in a swamp and plagued with disease, three frontiersmen are sent ahead to seek aid at an old Army fort. They are harassed by bandits and a rogue native, their youngest companion becomes critically injured, and a dark and primal creature begins to hunt and torment them. As the group comes to find the fort abandoned and the land cursed by forces both natural and supernatural, the once hopeful shelter becomes a maddening prison. As time passes and they slowly begin to starve, the growing fear and hunger drives them against each other, the worst of their own human natures are realized, and they begin to change...