12 year old Josh York is trapped in a trailer of flowing grain. With just seconds before he is buried alive in the suffocating wheat, farm worker Dennis Olson jumps into the trailer to try and save the boy. He knows he can't fight the power of the grain without support but a nylon strap running across the trailer gives him the crucial leverage he needs - until the strap breaks.
Grandfather and farm worker Curtis Minks crashes a truck load of soybeans on a remote country road. By chance medical assistant Jackie Johnson and her friend Brenda are taking the same road on their way home from work. Seeing the truck on fire by the side of the road, and Curtis unconscious inside, Jackie is determined to rescue him.