All Ricky Kidd wants from his long-delayed vacation to Florida are the normal thrills any regular tourist might expect. But no regular tourist travels with someone like Joel, Ricky's terrifying six-year-old brother, who soon makes friends with an ex-con returning home to the Florida backwoods and everglades after years in prison.
As a result, within hours of arriving, Ricky and his friends find themselves in the dangerous crossfire of an old family feud frought by moonshiners, allligator poachers, and even a couple of FBI agents. Unfortunately, Ricky doesn't discover the million-dollar reason behind this destructive bitterness of revenge until he faces his worse nightmare--alone in the swamp as alligator bait.