Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who
can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no
matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'. Carl and
Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America's
highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. The
spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing
sidekick are running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is
Arvin, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but
also violent man in his own right.