James and Zoe are obsessed with the dead. While their classmates are attending Wolf Creek High football games, they're digging up bodies at the Hillside Cemetery across town. They get more than just a ghoulish thrill when they exhume the bones of a long-dead gold miner. With a map they find on the body, and bursting with adolescent enthusiasm, they take to the hills in search of a legendary gold mine. They aren't the only ones looking for it, though. In Wolf Creek, there are some secrets better left buried.