A family man's chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter leaves him on the run from the police and an impending event known as the Inversion.

The film follows a mountain man on the run from authorities who survives the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes. He's haunted by a recurring dream of being lost at sea and constantly has flashbacks of his former life of a family man.

An eccentric mountain man on the run from the authorities, survives the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes in a remote community. Regularly calling into radio talk shows, he has acquired the nickname "Buster", and is haunted by visions of being lost at sea, and memories of his former life as a family man.