In a forty-eight hour period in the small, backwoods town of Stillwater, a man arrives to collect the chemicals he needs to blow up a government building. A missing young girl is found murdered and mutilated in the dark woods along the highway. A disturbed drug addicted Sheriff becomes dangerously obsessed on bringing the girl's killer to justice. The plan was simple. Dutch, an ex-Army gunner, comes to Stillwater to visit Clay Smalls, an old military friend who had acquired the four tons of nitromethane and ammonium nitrate Dutch needs for a massive truck bomb to blow up a government building. Two days. He'd be in and out. But Clay's wife, a Russian mail order bride named Arina, seduces Dutch and makes him an offer: murder Clay and she will split the $500,000 cash that he keeps in his home. Then things quickly turn desperate when a missing young girl is suddenly found murdered and brutalized in the dark woods by the highway. Police and FBI swarm Stillwater, and Sheriff Tom Marshall, a speed and Vicodin addict with his own demented version of the law, suspects Clay's meth addicted brother, Gibbs Smalls, of the murder.