Two lovers meet in a motel room for a tryst. Clay pretends to hunt down Rose with a gun in a playful frisky way but then they get to talking as lovers do about their near-death experiences. Clay talks about being stepped on by a horse which put him in a hospital for weeks as he struggled to stay alive. But Rose tells a story about her car breaking down on the deserted highway and being picked up by a man who is a murderer. Her only hope is creating some kind of connection with her potential killer but that decision has its perils and unexpected consequences