Tabloid writer, John Garrett travels to Gatlin, Nebraska for a career-boosting scoop on the strange, cult-like murders of the town's adults - reportedly committed by their own children! It isn't long before Gatlin's orphaned children, are lured into the vast cornfields that surround the sleepy town, by an evil force known to them as "He Who Walks Among the Rows." As adults start dying horrible, violent deaths, Garrett and local anthropologist Frank Red Bear, discover the town's secret, a volatile corn mold, responsible for the children's sudden delusional and murderous behavior.