In 1820s America, frontiersman and fur trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) joins a pelt-gathering expedition under the direction of Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson) in the unsettled wilderness of what are today the Dakotas. The large hunting party, which also includes Glass’ half-Native American teenage son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), disgruntled roughneck John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), and the young and inexperienced Jim Bridger (Will Poulter), are soon attacked by the Arikara Indians. The natives are searching for a female member of their tribe who was kidnapped and abused by a band of hunters, and they kill most of Captain Henry’s outfit. Glass, the most experienced woodsman of the remaining trappers, charts a new course inland to a U.S. fort to avoid further confrontation with the natives -- much to the consternation of Fitzgerald, who’s more concerned about getting paid for this job.