A young woman named Arlen is dropped inside a locked, fenced-in desert where people being deemed undesirable by society (the "bad batch") are forced to fend for themselves. A sign declares that the area is considered outside of the U.S., and that American laws and citizenship no longer apply. Arlen is soon kidnapped by two women in a golf cart. When she wakes chained up, a woman cuts off her right arm and leg. Arlen later tricks the woman into unchaining her, kills her, observes cannibalism of human limbs, and escapes on a skateboard. She is rescued in the desert by a mute hermit who takes her to a makeshift town named Comfort.