In the Texan “Hands on a Hardbody” competition, contestants stand around a new pickup truck for days, touching it with one hand. Whoever holds out the longest wins the truck.

Set in a technocratic empire, humanity lies cold and subjugated beneath the boot of an inhuman authority. But hidden within its suffocating body are those who fight to reignite the fire at its heart.

Convicted murderer Clyde Thompson receives the death penalty for shooting two men in Texas in 1928. When the governor spares his life, Thompson gains a reputation as the meanest man in the state while working hard labor in prison.

The legendary Ravenwolf Towers, once home to Hollywood’s Elite, has fallen on hard times. Now the latest Assistant Manager is discovering the Hotel's terrifying secrets; secrets that hide in the shadows of its dark corridors and lurk behind its locked doors--Mad Doctors, Degenerate Monstrosities, Inbred Horrors, Terrified Guests who disappear without a trace -- and an Alluring Damsel in Distress – why may just be the most terrifying resident of -- the Ravenwolf Towers.

Sandy's past transgression, with her fiance's best friend Roman, comes back to haunt her when he becomes their best man. Roman is mentally unbalanced and determined to make Sandy his own bride.