Stewart believes he is just waiting out the clock. Retired, invisible, and adrift in a life that feels increasingly gray, he drives into the high Utah wilderness not to find something new, but to escape the quiet nothingness of home. He tells himself he is ready for the end.
But the mountain has a way of calling a bluff.
When a sudden winter storm buries the remote road and traps him in a freezing whiteout, the silence of the desert strips away Stewart’s defenses. Isolated in the crushing cold, he is forced to confront the terrifying truth about his own resignation. As the temperature drops and the world dissolves into white, Stewart discovers that the line between accepting death and fighting for life is razor-thin...and that the mundane life he took for granted might be the only thing worth burning for.
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