After having his study of the remote, reclusive, and cannibalistic Cobeus tribe cut short; anthropologist Nathan Haswell returns home to America to tend to the affairs of his dying mother. It seems that heathenistic jungle rituals are not so easily forgotten, however, as Nathan proceeds to show a modern world the power hidden in ancient Amazon rites of starvation, deprivation, and cannibalism. Caught in Nathan's web of murder and carnage is Aimee; an all-American college freshmen suddenly faced with the grim reality of survival in a nightmare controlled by this brilliant, yet deranged killer.