High in the mountains of Wyoming after the Civil War, a bounty hunter and his prisoner are trapped in a cabin with six others after a blizzard prevents them from reaching town. In the beginning of the film, the eight people all have certain perceptions of one another, as the film progresses the perceptions rapidly change and the film ends with everyone's true intentions revealed. The film starts with a famous bounty hunter, John Ruth, transporting his prisoner ,Daisy Domergue, to the town of Red Rock to hang. Daisy has a bounty of $10,000 on her head and Ruth is weary of everyone he crosses paths with. Ruth uses the Uncertainty Reduction Theory(McCornack p. 78) to try and figure out who everyone really is. He is able to connect with another
