June 1978. Ohio. While his classmates celebrate graduation and the future, 18-year-old Jeffrey sees his world falling apart. His parents are going through a violent divorce, his mother is leaving with his younger brother, and his father is away on business. Alone in a large house in the middle of the woods, Jeffrey battles internal ghosts and impulses he doesn't understand.
The story culminates on the fateful day he spots Steven Hicks, a charismatic hitchhiker heading to a rock concert. The film focuses intensely on the hours they spend together: the ride, the conversation about music, the beer in the empty house, and the growing tension between Jeffrey's desire not to be alone and his inability to connect humanly, leading to the first and tragic "sin" that would seal his fate as a monster.
