After his defeat by Darren Moskoff, the nation's most renowned junior sharpshooter, Vaughn Newcot wrongly interprets an innocent misunderstanding as an insult and a snub. Taunted by his abusive father for losing, Vaughn allows a dangerous hatred for his rival to fester. A decade later, after committing a violent action, Vaughn sets out to avenge this insult, and while seeking the Moskoffs, takes off on a violent cross-country odyssey. Mitchell Fenwick, a young Canadian recently discharged from the French Foreign legion forces his mother to reveal a secret from her past involving Darren's father that must be rectified. With no other option available, Mitchell too sets out to find the Moskoffs. In search of Darren and his father, both Mitchell and Vaughn journey from New York City to the Adirondacks and finally to a sleepy New Jersey beach town, where Vaughn and Mitchell collide in an act of unspeakable carnage leaving one dead and the other forever changed.