A former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier takes a job managing a hotel saloon in a small town in northern Canada, very much like the Old West, full of eccentric persons engaged in illegal gambling, drug smuggling and gold mining. Against all odds, he meets a woman who works for Evergreen, a CIA flight operation. When mutual friends of theirs are murdered, they team up to exact revenge. They have to rely on each other for survival as they embark on a thousand-mile race for freedom and their lives through a frozen mountain wilderness to the American border, pursued by professional assassins and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Love blossoms between them under the most harsh environment of senseless, merciless killing and brutal hardship. Their arduous journey becomes a voyage of discovery about themselves.