年迈的史蒂芬·贾德受雇佣于一家银行把金矿运过一个危险的边界。他雇佣了一位老搭档吉尔·沃斯特姆和他的孩子来帮助他。尽管如此，史蒂芬并不知道有没有他的帮助，吉尔和赫克都准备偷金矿，在路途中，一位年轻漂亮的小姐先后试图摆脱她的爸爸，未婚夫和他那些危险的兄弟们的束缚…

Late one night on a rural road in the western US, a policeman sets up a roadblock and begins stopping all traffic. When several cars and a big truck have stopped, he tells everyone why: a nuclear attack on the US appears to be underway, and since they have the truck there, their best chance at survival is to use it as a bomb shelter. Time is short and tensions in the small group quickly rise.