When twenty-four-year-old Jae is released from prison for killing her mother, she returns to her childhood home in small-town Ridgecrest. The desire to go anywhere but there prompts her to agree to join her brother on a road trip out to Death Valley - which results in getting them hopelessly lost in the most stunning, but unforgiving topographical terrain on the planet.

King of the computer nerds Ben, transforms himself into a sonnet reading, serenading, sword fighting, cross-dressing Shakespearean Love Machine, to woo the girl of his dreams.