The Iceman, one of the deadliest episodic serial killers in history, is preying on immigrant teen-aged girls. A small time criminal smuggles a young Mexican girl across the border into the U.S. to sell her on the prostitution market. In his truck is a stash of cocaine destined for sale in the U.S. The girl is brutally attacked in a New Mexico bar and rescued by the owner. Together, the two women flee. The bar owner hopes to seek refuge with her estranged wealthy parents and to find the son she was forced to give up years earlier. Serious problems await them when their worlds clash with the work of the Iceman

By the spring of 1978, six girls between the ages of 15 and 19 have gone missing over a period of five years. No one will talk about them and no one knows their whereabouts. At best, the families fear their daughters were sold into prostitution. At worst, they fear the girls are dead.

The year is 1978. The location is Calvert County and the setting is farm and ranch country on the High Plains. It is forty years since the last years of the Great Depression.

Many offspring of local families have left for better paying jobs and prosperity in big cities far away. When they return to visit, they could spend a week driving around the county and find things nearly the same as they had been years earlier. But deadly changes are underway.

Illegal immigration has become a serious issue in Calvert County and those who have invested their lives in farming and ranching are both helped and hindered by the growing Mexican population. The uglines of the changes facing those whose families first settled Calvert County is like a boiling cauldron.

Those whose ancestors settled Calvert County are afraid … sometimes for their own safety … but alwaysfor the cherished and productive way of life they see slipping away. Angrily, around the supper tables in their homes, they curse the influx of immigrants. The comfort and security of the world they've known is eroding with a speed that frightens everyone.

But the fear among the Mexicans is many times greater. The daily fear of being deported and having family members separated by random actions taken by immigration officials has been overcome by the very real fear of death.

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