Pretty Tina Davenport relocates to her deceased father's hometown in order to write a book about him. While waiting at the bus station for her ride she is approached by an uncouth man, Manny, with obvious sexual intentions. He offers her a "ride" and Tina promptly turns him down with a "No thank you." So incensed is Manny that he attacks an elderly woman selling homemade baked goods, knocking her basket of breads to the ground. "Pedal your shit somewhere else!"

Tina's escort arrives and she is taken to a small cabin in the woods. Tina really knows how to live off of the land. She spears fish in a river and guts and cleans it before roasting it over an open fire. She's also physically fit and jogs and hikes when not working on her book.

Manny follows Tina into the woods, but he is stopped short once again. This time rather than a polite "No thank you" the perpetrator is threatened with the business-end of a fishing spear. Manny retreats once more, but not for long.

Back at the cabin Tina works on her writing and a drunken Manny glares at her through a window. The peeping tom routine gives way to breaking and entering, but Tina's too quick for him. Tina smashes his head between the door and the door frame. She calls the police and Manny is arrested. He vows to get her back!

The film now shifts to a military compound that is manned and operated by a group of gun handling outlaw survivalists who are preparing for a hostile war. Meanwhile Manny is escorted from the court house, a free man. He is met by the leader of the military organization, Major Hargrove.

Major drives Manny to the desert, nearly running over a motorcycle rider, and reprimands him for his attempted assault on Tina. Then a bit of Manny's sordid past is revealed, he had spent six years in prison for a sexual offense. Manny is a bad man.

The motorcyclist and his gang, Thrill Killers, make their way to the desert to teach Major a lesson, but he's not fooling around. He pulls a machine gun on one of the bikers, "What the hell is that for!?" Major informs him, "Killing mostly." For the moment the bikers flee.

At the compound more plans for survival are discussed and the training continues. The Thrill Killers, having not learned their lesson and tanked-up on booze, convene upon the survivalists' territory. This time the fire power is employed and the bikers go down one by one.

One biker is attacked, but takes out the gunman by head butting him with his motorcycle helmet and then twisting his head completely and snapping his neck. Two other bikers, one male and one female, are interrogated and when they answer incorrectly to Major's questions he unceremoniously blows their brains out. One captive girl, Linda, is handed over to Manny as some sort of a reward and he locks her in a cell, roughs her up and leaves with the words, "Think about the snake pit. Think about the snake pit."

Later, while in town, Manny spots Tina jogging and he kidnaps her and takes her back to camp.

Major is not at all pleased with Manny's decision to bring Tina to the compound and flogs him with a bullwhip for his infraction. Tina is put into the cell with Manny's other plaything, Linda.

In another part of town two rough looking thugs, Zach and a partner, turn over the Bullet and Blade Trading Post. They kill the store clerk and declare that they're sick of "city life" and retreat to the mountains whooping and hollering the whole way.

In time Tina is unmercifully bound to a bed and repeatedly raped by the soldiers while one member, Pierre, sits idly by sipping coffee, listening to Classical music on a portable tape recorder. Finally it's Manny's turn and he gets what he's wanted the whole time, and somehow Tina finds the strength to maintain her composure.

Once in the mountains Zach and his partner pay a visit to Bo and Meg. Bo was chopping wood and Zach's cohort lays Bo's own ax into his back. Zach shoots Meg and the two derelicts leave the scene of the unnecessary and brutal slaughter, but not before killing Bo and Meg's pet bunny rabbit. Zach and company are really bad men.

Back at the compound Manny pays a visit to Linda in her cell. Linda smashes a bottle over his head but is unsuccessful in her attempt to knock him out. Manny pulls a switchblade on the helpless girl and presumably kills her.

Tina is taken to Major to be assassinated, but before he can kill her she calls him out on his suspected sexual impotence. "I know now why you didn't take me last night. That gun is the only prick you've got!" Tina eventually convinces Major to set her free so that he and his men can hunt her down and kill her like an animal. This plan obviously gives Tina a chance for survival, but the major and his men are convinced that they will win.

Major allows Tina a two hour head start while the boys load weapons, sharpen knives and arrows and contemplate and plan their methods of attack. Tina takes to the mountains. After the two hour waiting period Major sets his "animals and anarchists" loose on their unarmed prey. Jake, played by the film's producer Jeffrey C. Hogue, is the first to locate Tina and he fires off a bazooka in her direction, but she narrowly escapes.

In another part of the mountains Zach and his buddy continue their killing spree by shooting a picnicking couple and then making off with their sports car.

Tina is still on the run and getting tired and thirsty. She pauses at a creek for water and a rest. Jake is now pursuing her with a crossbow. He levels his weapon, aims and fires and again the sly Tina escapes unharmed. Tina then lures Jake to her and just when he thinks he's got her she stabs him directly into both eyes with two broken tree branches. One down and five to go, but now Tina has Jake's weapons.

Tina sets a snare trap and snags Pierre and then blows him to bits with a hand grenade leaving only a single chunk of bone and some mangled flesh hanging from the rope. Having heard the explosion the others surmise that Pierre has gotten her. Two down and four to go.

Tina hides high in the mountains and ambushes a member of the militant organization and kicks him to his death hundreds of feet below. Three down and three to go, and now Tina has an automatic machine gun.

Tina uses Jake's crossbow on one of her stalkers and Major and Manny flee back to the compound. Four down and two to go.

Also returning to the compound, Tina goes to rescue Linda but finds her dead with her throat slit from ear to ear. Manny had indeed killed her. Tina then goes back to the mountains to plan her revenge on Manny and Major once and for all.

Tina fools Manny by recording herself singing on Pierre's portable tape recorder. While Manny confusingly stares at the tape recorder Tina gives him a taste of his own medicine that he'd administered upon a defenseless Linda. With a knife she slices clean through Manny's throat. Five down and one compound and its leader to go.

Using all of the weapons that she'd acquired on her human scavenger hunt, Tina levels the outlaw camp. An exciting crescendo of fire and explosions ensue. Once the smoke clears Tina apprehends Major and throws him into Manny's secret snake pit. Rattlesnakes are in every crack, crevice and corner of the pit. Tina gives Major a pistol with one bullet and leaves him to die with the words, “Snake against snake.”

While walking along the highway Tina is approached by Zach and company. The two murdering sleaze-balls offer her a "ride" just as Manny had done at the beginning of the picture. Rather than turning them down with a polite "No thank you" she says, "Sure. Why not?" However, what Zach and his boy do not see is that Tina is clutching a live hand grenade behind her back.