The movie is opened by a scene of two bored highway patrol officers who have been parked behind a sign for some time and are desperate to arrest someone. Soon they get such an opportunity as Mick Taylor drives past and they pull him over. They insist that he went over the normal speed though it is not true. As soon as Mick receives a speeding ticket, he murders both cops and torches their car. Katarina and Rutger, a young German couple, arrived to Wolfe Creek Crater and camp nearby. They are misfortunate to attract Mick’s attention; he was driving nearby and saw their tent at night. Mick approaches their tent and offers Rutger and Katarina a lift so they don’t get charged by the local authorities for camping in a national park. They politely refuse his offering and he immediately loses his temper and attacks them. He decapitates Rutger and Katarina faints at the sight of her dying boyfriend. A British surfer Paul get in the middle of this dark story – driving along the highway he sees Katarina and lets her in, but Mick shoots her dead and captures Paul.