Dwayne McLaren (Liam Hemsworth) has been searching for all his life for a way to leave his hometown, Cut Bank. After graduating from high school, he thinks for several years on various projects to leave town with his girlfriend Cassandra (Teresa Palmer) but it will not be as easy as he thinks. Dwayne inadvertently was in the wrong place at the right time, recording a murder that will be worth a springboard to escape to the big city with Cassandra. But luck doesn't exist in Cut Bank and less to Dwayne, he see how his life is going astray.