A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.

A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range.

Vinnie Nicko brings his family into the secluded woods for a camping trip, where he plans to have his greedy, adulterous wife murdered by a hitman. However, his scheme is thwarted after an alien spacecraft crash lands in a nearby cemetery and one of the aliens begins to reanimate the dead.