Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, are abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, right from an arrest for drug possession to “rescuing” a family from a nonexistent gunman. Soon, the captives realize that something is wrong with Entragian, as they observe his bizarre statements and mannerisms, which soon gets escalated to brutal assaults and murder. Further, they began to notice Entragian bleeding both internally and externally, after which he takes young David Carver's mother, Ellen, to the mine, the China Pit. Soon, David realizes that they must escape from Entragian as he might come back and kill all of them. He escapes from his cel