Mackenzie| a troubled but daring teenage girl| is sent by her struggling mother to live with her uncle in Juneau| Alaska. Although Uncle seems like a supportive
caretaker and friend| the relationship turns and Mackenzie is forced to run. Trying to make her way back to Seattle alone to find her absent mother| Mackenzie only
winds up deeper in the Alaskan interior. Lost and with no one else to turn to| she shadows a loner backpacker| Bartlett| an unlikely father figure with scars of his
own. Together| they cross the wilderness and discover sanctuary in the last frontier.