*Its winter of December 1981 and Rambo, now a homeless, unemployed drifter, he was walking in the cold, it was slightly raining, He made it to the small town of Hope, Washington after looking for an old comrade, Delmar Barry, only to learn his friend died of cancer over a year earlier, brought on by exposure to Agent Orange during the war

Rambo is now walking around the small quiet town keeping quiet, he was looking for a place to eat. Some of the residents were going on with their day while some gave him looks, but soon this wouldn't go unnoticed by Hope's abusive, arrogant classist, and rancorously jealous redneck and a control freak that abuses his power, Sheriff Will Teasle who's job is supposedly keep drifters out of town