One Battle After Another

In the rain-drenched, forgotten corners of the Pacific Northwest, a ghost of the radical 60s hides in plain sight. Bob, a washed-up revolutionary, lives in a state of perpetual, stoned paranoia. His world is a carefully constructed fortress of conspiracy theories, scavenged supplies, and the dense, protective woods. The only light in his crumbling existence is his daughter, Willa. A fiercely self-reliant and spirited young woman, she has been raised entirely off-grid, her education consisting of survival skills and her father’s cautionary, fragmented tales of a past he can never escape. Their fragile, isolated peace is shattered when Bob’s greatest fear becomes reality: his evil nemesis, a shadow from his militant days, resurfaces after sixteen years of silence. This man, a chillingly patient and cunning foe, represents the violent consequences Bob thought he had left behind. The threat becomes terrifyingly personal when Willa vanishes without a trace. Plunged into a waking nightmare, Bob is forced to confront the world he abandoned. The haze of weed and paranoia is burned away by a raw, primal fear. His motivation is no longer abstract political ideology, but a singular, desperate drive: find his daughter. This journey forces him to retrace the steps of his past, re-engaging with a society he despises and re-opening old wounds, all while being hunted by the very nemesis he is seeking. Unbeknownst to Bob, Willa is not a passive victim. Her entire life has been training for this moment. Using the wilderness skills and sharp intellect her father instilled in her, she engages in her own battle for survival. She quickly realizes she is a pawn in a much larger, more personal war—a war rooted in her father’s history. Father and daughter are now on parallel, perilous paths, both battling the monstrous consequences of Bob’s past actions. The film becomes a tense, dual-narrative thriller. Bob, the former radical, must use the cunning and ruthlessness he buried to become the warrior he once was, while Willa must use her independence and resilience to outsmart her captors. Their separate struggles converge towards a final, explosive confrontation where they must face the nemesis together, forcing Bob to finally atone for his history and Willa to decide what kind of future, if any, they can build from the ashes of his revolution.