Horror. A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes, lodges in a run-down motel, living in fear of her ex-husband, who has recently been paroled. She begins a relationship with eccentric drifter Peter and starts to feel hopeful again. However, the relationship deteriorates into horror and paranoia as Peter is convinced that he has bugs under his skin, contracted whilst a soldier out in the Middle East, possibly deliberately as a military experiment. Agnes starts to believe that she has them too.