Matilda and her boyfriend Matt are injured in a car crash and left stranded in the rural backwoods of Texas. All the commotion draws the deadly attention of a sinister family of cannibals who capture Matilda and Matt, separating them from one another until the mute butcher can take care of them. Matilda offers to teach him sign language in order to gain his trust and escape, but instead, she gains something else. His devotion.