A crime has been committed. Brother killed brother - this is what all residents of a provincial American town think. A guy convicted of murder, having escaped from prison, intends to take revenge on the police chief who conducted the investigation into this case. The fugitive seizes a car and at gunpoint forces the driver - a young beautiful woman - to go where he needs to go. But, as often happens, you are looking for one thing, but you find something completely different... At the same time, the ring around a couple of young people is shrinking... How will this story end? Where will the circumstances and vicissitudes of their relationship lead a man and a woman? For a wide range of readers.