Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth maturely handles several distractions, among them: her mother's institutionalization because of mental instability; her father's female friend and his surgery; her grandfather's suicide; her lifeguarding job; her boyfriend.

Rich Longfellow is a young aspiring actor who dreams of playing Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He moves form a small town in Ohio to Los Angeles where he’s sure he’ll star in a couple of major Hollywood motion pictures and finally make his way to London to perform Shakespeare at The Globe. In the meantime, his physical attributes get him the lead role in a feature length porno; ‘Aristotle and his horny time travels’. When he discovers the producer values him for his physical attributes over his acting abilities he is shocker, and very disappointed and distances himself from all those closest to him. Nevertheless, he finds his feet again, a celebration of indomitable spirit of youth which refuses to be destroyed.

BETH, hitchhiking cross country on a lonely highway, is offered a much needed ride from SAM. Along the way Sam begins spinning an eerie tale of MIDNIGHT MARY and THE HITCHHIKER. The contempt of Midnight Mary's life being cut short still haunts the isolated roadway. However, Sam wants to add a new twist to the urban legend - the death of Beth.