Hope Williams, a successful ER doctor, reluctantly meets an accomplished artist on a girls night out. He is everything her past lovers were not, and he forces her to discover a side of her that she never knew existed. As Hope’s sexual life steams up, her work takes a turn for the worse when an abusive husband of a battered patient blames her for his misgivings. Soon, Hope’s personal life becomes entangled with her work life, and both are put at risk

The Everglades trip that a couple has planned for their twin daughters' eighth birthday is ruined when the father is captured by a greedy swamp- dweller and the rest of the family fall into the clutches of a perverse alligator-worshiping leader. The girls learn that the tribe plans to sacrifice them at sundown, so they must use all of their wit and cunning, not to mention repressed psychic abilities to outsmart and hopefully escape their captors.