[5] The film takes place in the Russian taiga, where an outbreak of rabies infects the local wolves, turning the wilderness into a deadly landscape.
Igor brings his drug-addicted son, Vovka, to a remote hunting lodge, chaining him to a wall in an effort to isolate him from his habit and get him clean.
After a rabid wolf breaks into the cabin, Igor fends it off, and local authorities begin to suspect he is holding his son against his will.
As tensions rise, Igor, Vovka, and the police officer Abyzov are forced to flee deeper into the taiga, only to confront a rabid bear at dawn.
In the film’s final scenes, Vovka, now sober, visits his father’s grave with his wife, telling him he has turned his life around and that they are expecting a child.