Tom and Rachel Smith, along with their son Caleb and infant daughter Lily, move to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to build a cabin and embrace a quiet, self-sufficient life. But as winter deepens, unsettling signs emerge-distant howls, claw marks on the cabin, and Caleb's vivid nightmares of a skeletal creature with antlers and glowing eyes.
Seeking answers, Tom visits a nearby Ojibwe elder who warns him of the land's dark past. Over a century and a half ago, a man named Thomas Bellamy was trapped in a brutal winter and driven to cannibalism. The act cursed him, transforming him into a Wendigo-a creature of endless hunger that still haunts the ridge. And now, it has awakened.