Oscar nominee Terrence Howard and Nicole Ari Parker star as a young African-American couple who must find a way to survive when their car breaks down in a backwater, violent and racist town. Byron (Howard - Hustle & Flow) and Nina (Parker- -King's Ransom) are driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where Nina plans to start college, when they are forced to stop at a small, deserted place right next to a town. ghost. Unaccustomed to facing racism and bigotry in the escalation that is preserved in this rural anachronism, Byron's confrontational response to name calling, epithets and threats quickly leads to a fight for survival, and the Chicago couple is alone and outnumbered.