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Cindy is hitchhiking along the side of the road when a man pulls over. He asks her where she's going, and she tells him; he says he's going through that town and that it was no trouble. Maybe, for this favor, she would do a favor for him. He expects Cindy to pay him with giving him oral sex. Cindy pulls out a gun and tells the driver to keep his eyes on the road. Cindy is next seen in a gas station. Cindy shoplifts food and accessories at a store in a small town. The sheriff (Paul Whitney) watches Cindy from a distance. He approaches Cindy , informing her that "people around here pay for their items." Cindy throws down a rack of store goods. She runs away. The sheriff falls over the rack.

Cindy runs outside. A young man Tom Hoxey ) tells Cindy to hide inside his truck. Cindy is reluctant to accept Tom's offer, but he urges her to hurry up or else the sheriff will find her. Tom drives off with Cindy . She asks Tom the reason he helps her to escape the sheriff. He claims the sheriff previously busted him for a drinking charge. At a local bar, the two of them have a few drinks. They chat about Cindy 's travels. Cindy is obviously a confident girl who can take care of herself. Tom takes Cindy back to his home. Cindy discovers that Tom lives with his mom, Gaia (Barbara Niven). Tom is direct with Cindy , so the two agree to go upstairs and have sex. As they are having sex, the audience then sees Gaia outside Tom's door, listening to him and Cindy having sex.

In the morning, Cindy wakes up and puts her clothes on. She scavenges the kitchen, taking money from a jar. Tom enters the kitchen. He tells Cindy she can stay. Cindy is not interested. She tells Tom he was good last night, and that she wanted to avoid the awkward morning goodbye. Tom refuses to let Cindy leave, continually telling Cindy she can't leave. Cindy pulls out a gun, threatening Tom to let her go or else she'll take action. Tom's mother Gaia smacks Cindy on the back of her head with an object. Tom shows his mom that in his hand are the bullets to Cindy 's revolver, reassuring her that he had it under control.

Cindy is stored in the basement. A frail young woman Amber (Danielle Kind) is also held hostage; that the lack of sun is what's hurting Amber, not Tom. Tom tells Cindy that he considers the basement as his garden. The girls make his garden look beautiful. The audience then discover Tom is a serial killer after he shows Cindy a skull of a deceased girl. Cindy says that he killed the girl, and Tom, angry, hits her, insisting he would never kill any of his girls.

Amber's father Darwin is released from jail. He notices his home is a mess, and that there's rotten food in the fridge. Darwin asks the sheriff whether he has heard from Amber, saying that he heard around town that Amber was hanging around Tom. The sheriff is biased toward Darwin, dismissing him and telling Darwin that Amber probably left town for a while, as she had before. Cindy tries to survive in the basement by antagonizing Tom. She is defiant toward Tom and his mother. When Cindy and Amber are alone, Cindy tells the weakened Amber to grab the tools hanging on the wall. Amber, at first, is delrious, not understanding what Cindy means. Amber asks for "Daddy," and Cindy uses that to make Amber get up and limp toward the tools. Amber, weakened, falls on the ground, hits her head on a brick, and dies.

Tom is pissed off that one of his girls died. He takes any deaths seriously. Tom's garden is special to him since his father locked him in the basement as a child that was where he first started growing his plats. Tom is told to get rid of Cindy . His mother feels that keeping the garden is too dangerous since Darwin is snooping around town. Tom, angry, pins her to the table, forcing her to give in and say that he is right, before kissing her. She pushes him off, but touches herself after Tom leaves the room.

Cindy is left alone in the basement. Tom searches Amber's purse, finding an old picture and a journal, which forces Tom to realize that he only has one "garden angel" left. He gives Cindy water, and when she behaves he unlocks Cindy from the chains and gives Cindy a bath upstairs. However, she tries to run again. After that, Tom and his mother search Cindy 's purse and find an old letter. Whatever it is, upsets Gaia, and she goes downstairs, pulling Cindy 's chin back and forth before giving Cindy permission to work upstairs while Tom is home. She must stay in the basement when Tom and the mother are gone.

Tom's father Gant Hoxey is on his way home, after calling that night that after she found the letter in Cindy 's purse. She sounds upset, he said, and he wants to know why. He realizes he has a surprise at home. Tom and Cindy have sex again. Cindy is obviously manipulating Tom, telling him she loved him when he told her to. The two talk about their future plans to leave. Tom wants to stay in the home, but Cindy has other plans. The next day in a clothing shop that Gaia works in the sheriff informs Gaia that Darwin is worried about Amber's whereabouts. She tells the sheriff she hasn't seen Amber. Darwin asks Tom to stop by to help him on a stove since Tom is also a handyman. Tom agrees. Darwin asks Tom about Amber. He tells Darwin he hasn't seen his daughter in a couple months. Tom works on Darwin's oven. He tells Darwin that Amber must have left to watch a music band.

Jessie is a local mechanic that is a witness to Tom being with Amber, telling Tom that Darwin had stopped by asking after his daughter and she mentioned seeing Amber with Tom. Tom decides to take Jessie hostage to prevent her from speaking to Darwin again. Tom is injured in the basement after Jessie, who he tied up, manages to get the ropes off her wrist and getting a knife from her ankle and stabs him on his leg. Tom asks Cindy to give Jessie water. Jessie thinks Cindy and the rest of the bunch are expecting her to become a sex slave. She agrees to do anything sexual, if only to survive. Cindy begs Jessie to stay quiet, obviously scared for her. Jessie begs her not to leave her alone, but she's scared of Tom and goes back upstairs.

The next day, after Darwin goes to Jessie's mechanic shop and finds Tom's handyman cards on the ground after Jessie rips his pocket, he drives to Tom's house. Cindy attempts to escape as Darwin drives up to the front of the home. Cindy enters Darwin's car, frantic about leaving the home right away. Darwin asks Cindy if he daughter is in the home. Tom shoots a perfect shot, blowing apart Darwin's head. Cindy runs out of the car. She tries to escape, but Tom shoots a shot next to her foot, and she pauses as Gaia pulls up, seeing the blood all over Cindy and Darwin's car.

Cindy is restrained again in the basement, to Jessie. The father arrives home. He visits downstairs to see Cindy . Gant tells Cindy her mother never told him about her existence, telling her that her mother told him she miscarried Cindy . Cindy connects the dots and realizes that Gant is her father. She came looking for her father; however, she finds a monster. Gant guts Jessie, forcing Cindy to watch, after he lets Cindy go upstairs. The family have a cake. Tom defies his father, informing him he is not going to take Cindy . Gant makes a joke that he is in love with his sister saying that "has a hard-on" for her. The next morning, as they're all sitting down for breakfast, Gant informs them that he's going to take Cindy with him. Tom insists that he isn't, that Cindy is going to stay with him. They fight, and Gant belittles him, calling him a "pussy" and throwing him into the next room.

Tom walks out with a gun and threatens his father, asking if he's a man now. Gant takes the gun from Tom, shooting him to death. Cindy is shocked. Tom's mother is saddened to see her son dead. Gant also shoots Gaia dead after she realizes, and says that it was Gant's plan all along - to get rid of his old family to make a new one. He tells her that she's right, and forces Cindy to leave with him. Gant and Cindy leave the home. They drive to a nearby park. Gant approaches a woman who is having a picnic. Cindy walks up to her father and stabs him to death. The picnic woman screams, pleading Cindy to not to killer her too. Cindy tells the woman he was going to "kill you, and then me eventually."

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And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

Matthew 18:9

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