A brilliant high school senior is counting the days until she can leave her abusive foster home behind for Yale. But her plans are interrupted when a mysterious new teacher with a sinister past becomes disturbingly fixated on her.

After a violent altercation, a runaway youth goes on the lam with a charming beach dweller offering an easy way out, but once they skip town, she quickly realizes that the harrowing past shes running from is one she may never escape.