Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
Troublemakers in a car start harassing a family on a road-trip. The family is driven off road - and the men start sexually harassing the wife and daughter. They rough up the husband and shove the women in a car and drive away.