Charlie practically doesn't know the man now sitting behind the wheel, Josh Baxter. They met on campus, each looking for a travel companion for the long trip home to Ohio, both with good reasons to leave. Charlie is left with guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh - at least according to him - the need to help his sick father. But along the way, Charlie increasingly notices that there is something suspicious about Josh, from strange gaps in the story about his father, to a request not to look inside the trunk... On the dark, Along the winding highway, Charlie increasingly suspects that he is sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh really dangerous? Or is Charlie's mistrust just a figment of her imagination, fueled by movies? One thing is for sure - Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. The only way to win is to survive the night.