In a frontier town in the old west, a criminal drifter comes into town and promptly gets shot in the knee and arrested. By morning, the criminal, the deputy sheriff, and the doctor who spent the night in the jail are missing. The only clue is an arrow made from a human bone. Now the sheriff, the deputy sheriff, a town official, and the doctor’s disabled husband must journey five days into the desert to recover the missing citizens from a tribe of non-verbal cannibals preying on settlers.