A drifter comes to the town of Deepwater and is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.

Just released from the hospital and flat broke, Nat Banyon (Lucas Black), a young, orphaned drifter, sets out in pursuit of a farm job in Wyoming. Along the way, he comes across a car accident and saves the life of the driver, an eccentric older man named Herman Finch (Peter Coyote).
Finch is the owner of an old rundown motel in the town of Deepwater and offers Nat a job as a handyman in exchange for room, board, and a car that he will own free and clear once the motel is fixed up.
But Nat is being unknowingly lured into a world where nothing is as it seems. What follows is a twisted tale of manipulation, adultery and murder.