The film was directed by Scott Ziehl, and stars Desmond Harrington, Julie Mond, Lea Thompson, Alice Greczyn, David Rees Snell and Fred Ward.

In Texas, Sergeant Archie Sparks, an MP, has finally caught up with AWOL Corporal Meredith Cole, who has been accused of assaulting a commanding officer.

Cole finds herself on an American Auto Coach bus on her way to El Paso, along with an eclectic group of passengers for what should be an uneventful ride on Christmas Eve.

The driver, Danny Gunn stops the bus to help, and when he gets out, one of the bikers murders by shooting his brain, stray shots also wound Meredith and passenger Joey Ryan.

The rest of the passengers include single mother Maudie McMinn, moody, wayward father Sam Cutter, tough woman Desiree, her extremely skittish boyfriend Duke, Annabel Drake a vegan who happens to be a competitive archer, and Ramon Vargas a Spanish-speaking electrician.