A young woman travels to Texas to collect an inheritance; little does she know that an encounter with a chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward. The movie takes place directly after the events of the 1974 original - when the townspeople of Newt, Texas enact revenge on Leatherface and his cannibal family members by burning their home to the ground. The arsonists are proclaimed heroes of the community, and the entire Sawyer family is killed. Decades later, Heather discovers that she was adopted after receiving a letter that her grandmother, Verna Carson, has passed away - leaving the twenty-something grocery store butcher a sizable inheritance. Heather recruits the help of her boyfriend Ryan as well as friends Nikki and Kenny to visit her family estate and collect the endowment - only to discover a long-contained evil in the Texas town.