The Owners

Nick Nelsen

THE OWNERS
Logline:
When a wildlife photographer’s bush plane crashes in remote Alaska, he and his girlfriend must survive a brutal game of cat & mouse with a family of fugitives eliminating witnesses, but the real danger may be what survival turns him into.
Synopsis:
Nick and Sara charter a bush flight into the Alaskan wilderness to photograph a rare bull moose, a final tribute to Sara’s late biologist father. When their plane crashes in a violent storm, they’re separated, injured, and stranded in sub-zero temperatures.
Nick stumbles to a remote cabin, only to discover it’s been taken over by Cal and his family. Criminals on the run who’ve already murdered the cabin’s owners to cover their tracks. When Nick witnesses evidence of their crimes, he becomes their next target.
What follows is a brutal hunt through frozen valleys and abandoned hunting shacks. Nick fights his way through the family one by one, sustaining catastrophic injuries but driven by a single goal: find Sara and the owners’ four-year-old daughter, the only survivor.
But as the body count rises and the line between self-defense and murder blurs, Sara begins to fear the man she came here with. When Nick kills someone calling for help, unable to hear through howling wind that the man was surrendering. Sara realizes Nick has become unable to see past his own survival instincts.
By the time rescue arrives, Nick sits alone in the snow, pondering whether he’s hero or monster having saved two lives but lost himself in the process.