Apache officer, Lance Tallbear, enters the sacred Superstition Mountains after the discovery of a mystery plane crash. The mountains, still feared by his people and others because of the legends and grisly deaths, hold the keys to solving a mystery dawning from the start of WWII. It haunts some, yet drives others into the searing heat of the Sonoran Desert. The bodies he discovers at the site and the secrets they hold rise from the past to threaten him and all he holds dear. Thomas Kane, a high-ranking government official appears, offering him a simple solution—bury the case, or resist, and be buried with it.