A Southern Oregon mother struggles for survival after a massive earthquake leaves her trapped beneath her isolated home. She escapes the ranch house and, for the next three days overcomes extreme obstacles to travel toward her eighteen-year-old daughter in school 350 miles away. She's heard on the radio that students are being evacuated because Mt. Hood is having tremors, but does not know that her daughter is attempting to drive home. Both women repeatedly outwit evil men, icy weather, and unforeseen difficulties to find each other amid the mayhem as their stories unfold.