In the film Texas Chainsaw 3D 2013, a young woman named Heather learns she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew. Traveling with friends to claim it, she discovers her true lineage: she is the last surviving relative of the Sawyer family, which includes the infamous killer Leatherface. As the townspeople who massacred her family decades earlier seek to finish the job, Heather finds an unexpected and brutal protector in Leatherface himself. A new cycle of violence erupts, forcing Heather to choose sides in a deadly family legacy she never knew she had.