In Texas years before the events of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE in the early days of the infamous Sawyer family the youngest child is sentenced to a mental hospital after a suspicious incident leaves the sheriff s daughter dead. Ten years later he kidnaps a young nurse and escapes with three other inmates. Pursued by authorities including the deranged sheriff out to avenge his daughter’s death the Sawyer teen goes on a violent road trip from hell molding him into the monster now known as Leatherface.