The film is about a violent showdown at an isolated sawmill that occurs when a young employee hides eight kilos of a gang's stolen cocaine at the mill.

[1][2] When the heavily armed gang members come to recover their drugs, the sawmill owner stages a last stand to protect his teenage daughter.

Saïd tells his speech-and hearing-impaired teenage daughter Sarah about his plans to use the money from selling the sawmill for her postsecondary studies.

John Serba's review in Decider calls it another example of director Leclercq's "minimalist thrillers" and says it is like a French take on Rambo: Last Blood.

He says the film is "[s]o lean, it feels like it's missing a few scenes" and notes that it focuses on a "display of somewhat tedious sadistic bloodlust that could all have been avoided" if Said had been logical and called the police.

He criticizes the "indulgent slo-mo" during action scenes, the "pulsing" soundtrack, and the flat, bland characters, leading him to give a "skip it" recommendation with a C-minus rating.

Bradshaw says that when the "inevitable" deployment of the sawmill's motorized blades against the attackers occurs, "it isn't sufficiently ingenious or climactic".

Bradshaw says the characters are "sketched in too quickly" and it is cut so short that it plays "like the truncated version of a much longer and more thought-through film".

[4] Fabien Lemercier's review in Cineuropa says the film is fast-paced and "punchily transpos[es] the codes of the western to a story about gangs and a solitary hero, boss of a sawmill...".

He says the director "efficiently explores" the story using realism, creating a "visual mood", the sawmill setting, suspense and an accelerating rhythm and pacing.