A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is that the family's father is also a Vietnam veteran, and he has no intention of letting his family come to any harm.

Amikor Jack Gracie (Robert Factor)) és börtöntársa, Armitage (Frank Stalone) szökésük során túszul ejtik a nyaraló Haden családot, az apának, Don-nak (Cliff De Young) újra harcolni kell a háborúban szerzett gerilla taktikával és a dzsungelharc eszközeivel a terror ellen.