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Chelsea Bond and her son Daniel have come to their secluded ranch house near the town of Wilcox in Southern Oregon for a brief stay late in September. She is a beautiful, wealthy widow; her son, though disabled with Cerebral Palsy is bright and sensitive. They are spending the last few days at the ranch before Daniel returns to school. Her husband, Frank Bond, was caught in a business scandal and unwilling to stand trial, took his own life. Chelsea is now trying to come to terms with the loss of her husband and her future alone.

Tired of fighting the crime in the streets of Los Angeles, Sheriff Jack Royce has come to the small town of Wilcox. He liked the slower pace of the small town and the quiet simple life he had found.

Casey Donovan and Arlo Tam are two escaped convicts on the run through the rugged Siskiyou mountain wilderness of southern Oregon, headed for the California border. They robbed a bank in Roseburg and have a large duffle bag of stolen money. They come across a large ranch house in the woods, seemingly deserted except for a woman and a small boy the only occupants.

What happens next is when all these come together at the intersection of a wildfire.