In the 1950s, two white couples go on a hunting trip near Dallas; when the husbands leave their wives at the ranch for a few days, one of the wives tries to visit her lover but struggles to break free from her violent husband's grasp.

On a road trip from Ann Arbor to Buffalo, a young man stops in Cleveland and meets a whole host of characters who, like the pseudonyms they've chosen, aren't quite what they seem.