Kara Campbell is a normal 17-year-old, but her life changes forever when she and her family, and her best friend are abducted from a local restaurant. After that it's all about survival! In a prison camp within a barren wilderness no one knows if their next moment will be there last. Among her other concerns and the concern for her 88-year-old grandma, Betty, Kara deals with her feelings for her best friend Noel Eckhart; on top of that, she is offered the possibility of safety and escape by the charming but evasive prison guard Lukas. She wonders if the love triangle is worth the gamble if it means the safety of the people she loves, but then the things she is playing for is her own life.