When brothers Josh and Mike go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. Mike soon disappears as well, leaving Josh to team up with the local sheriff and school teacher to find him in a town that’s hiding a dark, twisted secret.

A Southerner—young, poor, ambitious but uneducated—is determined to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.