Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, Ernt makes an impulsive decision: He will move his wife and thirteen-year-old daughter, Leni, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid and into the great wide open. There, in the beautiful and remote corner of the state, the Allbrights find a fierce, generous community of homesteaders who help the family learn to live off the land. But as winter approaches and the days turn into eighteen-hour nights, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and their world begins to fracture. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni – desperate for a place to belong, and caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship – is about to learn the truth: She and her mother are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.