Reinforcements have been diverted to fight forest fires, and all communications have been cut off. Bum-seok, the chief of the Hope police station, and Officer Sung-ae struggle to defend a village of elderly residents, while up in the mountains, Sung-ki and the locals who set out to hunt the beast find themselves hunted by it instead. What begins in ignorance sows the seeds of disaster, which escalates through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.