Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who cant save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his prayer log. n n Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl Americas highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. n n The spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick are running from the law. n n And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin, Willard and Charlottes orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. n