A young woman is released from prison but avoids moving back to her childhood home and agrees to join her brother and friends on a road trip to Death Valley, resulting in them becoming hopelessly lost and fighting to survive the elements.

When 24-year-old Jae is released from prison for killing her mother, she returns to her childhood home in small-town Ridgecrest. The desire to go anywhere but there prompts her to agree to join her brother on a road trip out to Death Valley--which results in getting them hopelessly lost in the most stunning, but unforgiving topographical terrain on the planet.