You never know where a lie may lead.
While driving to a charming village tucked away deep in the Cascade Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new job teaching high school English, Katrina Burton picks up a young hitchhiker who turns out to be a drunken creep.
Fearful for her safety, she lies about her destination in order to get him out of the car.
But when she later discovers that he is a teacher at the same school, she finds herself feeding that.