To honor the dying wish of the family matriarch, a widow, his two grown children, a granddaughter and "significant others" trek twelve grueling miles to return to the family's camping spot of nearly three decades earlier. But much has changed, including a now polluted and dying stream (their only source of water), a record-breaking heatwave and an adult child no longer willing to tolerate a father's abuse. The woods holds its own surprises as well, including poisonous snakes, a ravenous bear and spirits, both intoxicating and incorporeal.