Hiding from a demented wife, Slate Morgan flees to the village of Peebles, Ohio where he obtains a job teaching in the school. He meets and befriends Silver Black, a teacher who is also being stalked by an abusive past. Although they aren't lovers, someone thinks they are, and anonymously makes a determined effort to break up their friendship. A few rock throwing incidents, ghosting, drive-by shootings and other acts of mayhem, convince the two that...