 Clay is a Vietnam vet who s banished himself out into the sweltering wasteland of the Nevada desert. He wants nothing to do with people. And, of course, trouble comes a calling, in the form of a young woman with a multi-million dollar winning lottery ticket and two killers on her trail. They trap Clay and the woman in his ramshackle homestead, making swiss cheese of the water tank, truck, and generator. Then they sit back under the beach umbrella with Pelegrino waters, to let the desert do the killing for them. Somehow Clay s got to turn the desert into a weapon if he s gonna save them.