A school bus carrying 8 Death School girls and their teachers break suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. They should have never stopped. Waiting for them are three heartless men just escaped from prison each with nothing to lose. And now, with the girls as their hostage, they have everything to gain. They make it they're staying in an abandoned slaughterhouse, and it is there that Lou handy, murder and convicts wrinkleader, announces his terms, to kill one captive an hour unless his demands are met. Will follow us as a 12-hour Siege of new tight tension and a war of nerves between handy and the FBI senior hostage negotiator Arthur potter.