The Contest: You Can't Leave 'Till It's Over

Imagine an offer of sixty thousand dollars, the "Prize of Your Life," and an all expense paid, two-month retreat in Aspen, Colorado.

George Russo is invited to participate in a writing competition sponsored by an agency that represents new authors. It is so intriguing and he is so destitute, he had to accept.

Lured to Aspen, the contestants end up in a ghost town far away from civilization.