A recreational trail ride into the Arizona Desert turns into a fight for survival when five young women are hunted down by an unhinged man even as they grapple with personal demons.

SYNOPSIS:

Clemantine “Clem” Brody feels taken for granted. Shy and underappreciated, Clem gophers in the mail room of a company owned by her gritty college sorority sister, Lizzie. Clem vents her frustrations by flinging sharpened pencils across the mail room into the company’s cork bulletin board.

Clem dreads her upcoming “girls’ weekend out”, a trail ride into the Arizona desert with Lizzie and three other sorority sisters. The other women also view Clem as their personal support animal. Clem takes zero comfort that she won’t have to face her greatest fear while out in the desert – drowning.

The women ride into the Superstition Mountain wilderness, a primitive area visitors can only access by foot or on horseback. Clem shows a touch of spunk when she and a sister race their horses. But

Clem’s horse slams into a hermit gold miner, launching him, his burro, and his dog off the trail.

That night after they make camp, Lizzie gets drunk. When one woman complains about a coyote howling at the moon, Lizzie stalks into the brush with a six-gun and shoots at the animal to scare it.

But it’s not a coyote – it’s the gold miner’s dog. And now it’s dead.

Next morning Clem discovers several of their horses intentionally made lame by knife cuts. Lizzie orders the women double up and continue the ride. Clem can’t find the courage to challenge Lizzie.

Shortly after they saddle up, a rattlesnake lands on the trail, thrown from rocks above. The spooked horses stampede, and all but two cartwheel to the canyon floor far below. Gone with them is all their food, water and camping supplies. They’re stranded miles from civilization. Cell phones don’t work, and Lizzie is gravely injured. The hapless women plead with Clem to lead them to safety.

That night, there’s distant thunder and lightning. As Clem gathers firewood the miner attacks her.

Clem fights him off, escapes to the safety of a sandy wash. A ROAR behind her and Clem is horrified to see a flash flood racing at her. The raging torrent sweeps both Clem and the psycho miner away.

Next morning, the others find Clem barely alive, and the miner’s coat speared by a bloody, broken branch. They all assume he’s dead. But relief is short-lived when they realize no one had the foresight to save any of the flood water. The previous night’s gully washer has vanished into the desert sand.

With her last bit of strength Clem captures the miner’s burro. She gambles with their lives and turns the burro loose in the hope he will lead them to the miner’s lair and his cache of water and food.

The women enter an old gold mine and are shocked to discover the miner has cheated death. Though badly injured, he kills one woman and incapacitates the others. He turns his psychotic fury on Clem.

Clem fights with a newfound warrior spirit, survives the vicious battle and leads her friends to safety.