In the far northern wilds of Idaho, Peter seeks not comfort but silence. A burned-out man fleeing the noise of his former life, he retreats to a weather-beaten cabin in the Selkirks to practice meditation and reclaim his soul. At first the forest seems a sanctuary-frosted mornings, deer trails, the hush of falling snow. Yet the deeper Peter journeys into solitude, the more the wilderness becomes a mirror for his own hidden terrors.
What begins as stillness soon tilts toward the uncanny: whispered invitations to the dark, the conjuring of a presence that may be demon or shadow of self. Stripped of shelter and clothes, Peter roams the woods in penance, confessing sins to an indifferent sky, sustained only by roots and insects. When a frog appears by the firelight-its voice thundering with the proclamation of an angel-Peter is told his end will come in three nights.
Haunting and elemental, Wildlife of Idaho is a tale of retreat turned reckoning, where silence is never empty, the wilderness watches, and every breath may be the last.