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Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher,
stops on a quiet stretch of Ozark highway to help an
alluring young girl named Laurie whose car trouble--and
attraction to the handsome stranger--pales in the face of
her real problems: Shes on the run from police and
involved in a dangerous criminal debt with Jeff, her
violent, on-again, off-again boyfriend, who also cons a
ride from Toby. With Laurie as a grudging accomplice,
Jeff kidnaps Toby to an abandoned farm, hoping to force
him to cook synthetic heroin in order to pay off Familia
Sin Amore, the group of vicious Bolivian drug
traffickers to whom hes desperately in debt. When Toby
proves unwilling, Jeff with the help of a local thug
named Judge Bass, kidnaps Annette, Tobys ex-wife. The
criminals hold her as security, threatening to frame Toby
for her murder should he escape. The situation grows ever
more tense as Toby asks for a share of the profits,
Laurie disappears, Annette refuses to play the victim,
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