Dawn Crenshaw, now in her forties, is still living in New Vegas and has retired from combat. She lives a life of loneliness and depression with Maddie imprisoned in an asylum. Dawn meets a shadowy young man, Damon, and teaches him wasteland survival. When Dawn kills a member of a powerful gang know as the Outcasts, she along with Damon, become hunted across the Mojave Desert as they make their way towards Junktown.