In the face of shifting economic conditions, a family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggles to maintain the family company.
Logs are chopped and shipped in Oregon by the Stamp family, who own and run the family company. The Stampers are ordered to stop working by other loggers who have gone on strike, but Hank insists on pushing his family to keep cutting trees in spite of the town's outrage and the other loggers' strike. Trouble escalates when Leland, Hank's troublesome half-brother, begins working for them.