When Jake and Alex, two teen friends, break down in their old VW van in a desert area, help seems hopelessly far away. After trudging for miles under the blazing sun, they stumble upon a mysterious girl who leads them to an isolated, off-grid community hidden in the dunes. What begins as a rescue turns into a perilous adventure as the boys uncover the community's strange rules—and its controlling leader's dark suspicions. When he becomes convinced they've betrayed his secrets to the outside world, the boys must outwit him and find a way to escape before the desert becomes their prison.