Four strangers and six weeks is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday. She was surprised when reality TV producers came knocking at the survival school where she teaches rich clients not to die during a night outdoors - and even more shocked to be cast in their new show, Civilization. Now she just has to live off the land with her fellow survivors long enough to get the prize money. Mara's rugged childhood has prepared her for the hard work ahead. But when the cast wakes one morning to find something has gone horribly wrong, fear ripples through the group. Soon Mara and the others face terrifying decisions as "survival" becomes more than a game.