The Australian outback is being terrorized by a vicious boar. The boar kills a small child but the child’s grandfather goes on trial for the child’s death but gets acquitted. An American journalist(Judy Morris) is also a victim of the boar. Her husband Carl (Gregory Harrison) arrives in the outback to seek out the truth on her death. He finds it difficult to get help from the locals but finally manages to get help from a hunter and a lady farmer in his quest to find the beast that killed his wife.