as dawn breaks over the arizona horizon, amber van hecke awakes inside a sprawling 1,200-square mile prison of solitude. and continues the video diary of her ordeal. >> i just wish someone would drive by, or that someone would come looking for me. >> reporter: she's out of gas. she can keep her phone charged through the car battery but it has no cell service. so, amber is left terrifyingly unmoored from the two great anchors of modern life -- transportation and communication. >> hopefully, it doesn't take too long to be found. got other things i got to do. >> reporter: she's actually stranded on that vast cattle ranch. amber's car sits in the shade of this empty, rusted tank, meant to hold water for the livestock. and look, this dirt road runs nearby. >> usually we have a cowboy in this area, and he would have run onto this lady. >> reporter: but as rancher gary wilson explains, that cowboy will not be moseying by anytime soon. >> he was gone for about five days, and that just happened to be the time that she was out here. just the timing was all wrong. >> reporter: back home in plan