Artesia, New Mexico. Pop. 3012. There's nothing 14-year-old Doc Candy likes better on a hot summer afternoon than snapping pictures of dead armadillos off Route 82.Until a no-good grifter of a father he hasn't seen in eight years comes blowing up to his window at two in the morning in a hot El Camino talking about a family vacation in Miami.Their Florida reunion turns into a 2000-mile getaway when Doc finds out the money used to pay for the trip was stolen from his lowlife uncle, the manager of an illegal Apache casino.But it isn't until they're hiding out in the Louisiana bayou that Doc learns the whole truth: it isn't Doc's uncle they're running from. It's a coal black Dodge Ram driven by a pair of bald, psychopathic teenage collectors looking to complete their gallery of human head hair toupees with the old man's scalp.