Set at a Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint Compound in Southern Utah, "The Compound" is a raid/seige drama focusing on the moral twilight of life in a Polygamist cult. The FBI suspects the charismatic leader Brigham Meecham, of hiding a peadophile ring and munitions factory. A young ranger Harp Madsen is given federal powers to investigate the allegations. With justifiable cause the ATF storm the Compound and its inhabitants fight back.