When his family is attacked by a crazed drug addict, introverted Ozarks paramedic, Benton Carver, is forced to take action because the local authorities seem disinterested in the case. His questioning crashes him into a small town conspiracy and puts him in the crosshairs of the most tight-knit, controlling band of officials any county has ever seen. Doomed with inexperience and faced with a level of corruption that spirals right down to the pits of hell, Benton is going to need more than his bad temper to save him.
