The bond between two neighboring farm families is put to the test when one of them chooses to lease its land to a gas company. In the midst of this growing tension, the land is drilled and something long dormant and terrifying is released.

On the brink of bankruptcy and desperate to save his family, George Lomack leases his farmland to a natural gas company despite the stern warnings of his neighbor, Kathryn Dolan. Once the drilling operation begins, the bonds between the two families are fractured as their farms are transformed into a dusty, noisy hellscape. As the tension grows above ground, the fracking chemicals and explosions unleash a long-dormant organism deep beneath the earth's...