Life is turned upside down for a small town mayor when a famous actress arrives to shoot her new Christmas movie.

When a film student and her two friends go to Kern County to shoot a documentary, they stumble upon a mysterious family and learn why Pandora's box should never have been opened.

Claudia, 22, gets busted for credit card fraud and deported from USA to Mexico. She returns to her estranged dad's ranch. She's a pocha - can't speak Spanish. She gets involved with a drug smuggler.

A man who escapes from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as "The Collector" is then forced to help rescue an innocent girl from the killer's booby-trapped lair.

A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.