Five college students drive through the desert on their way to Burning Man, where they intend to let themselves go, indulging in sex and drug fueled revelry. A shortcut turns deadly when a crazed hermit attacks the group, stranding them miles from nowhere as darkness descends. Little do they know that with nightfall comes an unstoppable creature with a strange intoxicant that causes a powerful addiction, blurring the lines between craving and terror, between friend and foe.