World War Two vet Art Kenning is the alcoholic first-aid man in an isolated sawmill village in the interior of B.C. The sad comfort of his self-imposed detachment is shattered when one of the most powerful men at the mill arrives at his door to ask for his help. What unfolds over the course of that night and following day will force Art to confront acts of evil, both in the present and the past, as well as the tragic consequences of his own inaction.