Cozy (Lisa Bowman) is bored with her husband, her children, and her life in the suburban world of South Florida. She’d love to leave it all behind. One night, she meets Lee Ray (Larry Fessenden) in a bar; he lives with his grandmother and drifts aimlessly through life. When a shot is accidentally fired from a revolver they find, the two flee, believing they have committed murder. However, the would-be Bonnie and Clyde don’t get any further than the nearest motel.

The trope of the outlaw couple on the run is invoked and deconstructed: no love, no crime, no new horizons. A flight that leads nowhere. Reichardt’s anti-road movie, narrated by Cozy’s detached voice-over, uses biting humor to expose the myth of freedom and adventure as incompatible with the American present.