A father and son run a rickety used car lot in Southern California. The old man and his boy are left overs from a bye-gone era of Americana.

NYPD detective Jake O'Conner is the taking-the-justice-in-his-own-hand type of cop. After taking revenge against the two men that killed his wife and daughter, he moves to a small town in the desert to get away from the big city. As the new Sheriff in town, Jake quickly finds himself entangled in a web of deception and in pursuit of a killer responsible for a spree of murders.

When a detective returns to his childhood home in Salem to settle the estate of his mother, he discovers the wicked truth of his bloodline and tries to escape a house of horror.

A troubled method actor gets carried away with his work on a role, playing a butcher.