In a violent world, a peace-loving man is forced on a desperate journey to find life-saving drugs for his wife but to get them he must first help an ornery old man defend his cabin against nefarious forces.
Based on actual events of American serial killer Edmund Kemper, who murdered his grandparents at age 15 and, after being paroled for that crime, killed eight women in 1972 and 1973 including his own mother.