When Tessa is taken by a band of Survivalists who live off the land in the vastness of the Pacific Northwest, MacLeod must call on all of his own skills, honed a hundred and fifty years earlier, when he roamed this same mountain wilderness. The leader of these modern-day mountain men, Caleb (who is an Immortal), falls in love with Tessa, and in the end, he and MacLeod battle to the death, axe against sword, against the primitive backdrop of the timeless wilderness.