The Carters are heading to L.A. in their cross-state journey,
pulling up at Fred’s (John Steadman) gas station for fuel before they continue
through the desert. Bob (Russ Grieve), Edith (Virginia Vincent) and their
children Brenda (Susan Lanier), Bobby (Robert Houston) and Lynne (Dee Wallace)
and the two dogs Beauty and Beast making up this American nuclear family, with
Lynne’s husband Doug (Martin Speer) and their baby daughter Katie tagging along.
It is Bob and Edith’s silver anniversary and they want to explore a silver mine
they were bequeathed. Fred tries to dissuade them from going off the main road,
as this particular stretch of desert is a military test site. At least that is
the reason he gives them. However, Bob ignores Fred’s advice as he suspects
Fred is trying to keep the silver for himself, heading off the main road and
crashing the car. As night falls and the Carter family camp up, they soon
encounter another nuclear family, of the more irradiated and cannibalistic
sort, in the desert.
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