When a detective is called in to investigate the roadside execution of his partner, he discovers at the crime scene a data card from a video camera. The card contains footage shot by two runaway teenagers who are making a documentary about the drug related death of a sibling. The detective retraces the teen's journey and soon begins to uncover a trail of the dead that leads all the way back to police headquarters.

An uptight grad student reluctantly inherits his grandfather's property in Salton Sea but when he meets an offbeat local woman, he gets pulled into the sea's biggest mystery.