Logan (Hugh Jackman) and Victor Creed (Liev Shreider) are enrolled in a team of elite mutants, called Team-X and are being led by William Stryker (Danny Huston). But after the team kills innocents on their mission in Nigeria, Logan leaves the Team, disgusted by what they had done. Nearly six years later, Logan is working as a lumberjack and lives with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). His dreams are shattered when Victor hunts down and kills Kayla. He hunts down Victor, gets defeated, and turns to Stryker who has his skeleton reinforced with adamantium. Logan begins to search for Victor but finds out that Stryker had been deceiving him all along.