Confinement is hell, and winter confinement is worse... Add several men and one woman into the mix, and you’ve got a recipe for gunplay and murder. The Warings, a husband and wife, find themselves trapped in a miner’s cabin when winter weather arrives earlier than anticipated. Along comes Veach, a cowboy also caught in a predicament and needing a place to stay to survive. When the other two men arrive, they bring trouble and danger in such measure, none of them may survive the winter… Hell Creek becomes hell on earth.