When a camping trip goes terribly wrong, young Joey Winter finds himself seriously injured, abandoned by his mother and her friend, and in the care of dangerous strangers.
As he recovers, he learns he's in even more danger than he ever imagined, and still his mother has not come to get him so, when the opportunity arises to escape, Joey takes it.
With three companions, one the woman who'd tried to kill him already and no doubt would try again, Joey is determined to survive and to go home.
