On a chilly Christmas Eve, Casey Smallwood, once a gentle college student, is freed from prison after a decade-long sentence for underage drinking. Anxious to leave town, he intends to rendezvous with his long-time pen pal on a train bound for Washington, D.C. However, as the holiday train ventures into the snowy wilderness, it is seized by a furious group of domestic terrorists and exceptionally clever raccoons trained by the government. Unwilling to shy away from a confrontation with raccoons, Casey teams up with a train porter to combat the terrorists and dismantle a top-secret military laser satellite controlled by raccoons.