In a small town, a serial killer mutilates the bodies of his victims and leaves a flower on the corpses. The sheriff and his wife/deputy investigate the murders while trying to keep from alarming the citizens. They team up with an autistic hound dog trainer to try to track the killer.
Animal mutilations are mentioned as having happened off screen, but are never seen. Two tracking dogs belonging to a main character appear in several scenes but are never in danger.