Traveling salesman Hurdis Jones is an ordinary man on an uneventful trip through the Midwest, until he gives a seriously ill hitchhiker a ride to the hospital. That's when he starts getting pounding headaches, bizarre hallucinations and blackouts. He feels like he's being followed and stumbles upon mutilated bodies...A dedicated family man, all Hurdis Jones wants to do is make it home to his worried wife and kids. But his journey becomes impossibly long and fraught with horror.