Samuel Waring is a Park Ranger in The Derbyshire Peak District who has recently lost his mother to cancer. He suffers from mental illness and is socially inept, but he loves the peaks and hates poachers with a vengeance. In a moment of complete loss of sanity he kidnaps a poacher and two hikers for 'crimes' to his peak. Waring then becomes a self appointed judge, jury and executioner...