Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

A hitchhiking teenager, Dawn, accepts a ride from a demented sadist, Karl, who drugs her and holds her prisoner in a secret room. The perverted man then kidnaps Dawn’s best friend before going on a murderous rampage. Finally Dawn escapes her psychotic enslaver only to find herself emotionally damaged and in need of the release that only Karl can bring.