To maintain his power, Stryker's death squad conducts an annual "harvest" of young women to be sent to the mines of itself. When his men abduct a young woman named Shira (Nicole Nieth) , her boyfriend Kal (Bentley Mitchum) —the grandson of the famous actor Robert Mitchum—sets out to rescue her.
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