Jayne Swallow, formerly known as Jana Wrobel, enters into the film industry in late 1950's Hollywood as a body double and dirty picture actress. For her most recent film, Jayne is a body double in an Alfred Hitchcock film. The scene in particular is a shower scene where the woman is brutally slashed and stabbed to death by her male murderer. Jayne endures hours and hours of verbal sexual harassment from Hitchcock every day on set. In addition to the emotional toll it takes on her, the use of the plastic prop knife cutting across her skin over and over, as well as the harsh water hose Hitchcock uses on her wears the young woman down both physically and mentally. One day, Jayne has had enough of the exploitation and abuse on set and decides to steal the film canister of everything the crew has recorded thus far in the production. She gets in her car and heads north late at night in the middle of an intense storm. An officer pulls her over and she becomes worried that he will sexually abuse her or cause her legal troubles, assuming he has been sent by Hitchcock and knows about the film theft. She is relieved when he simply tells her to get a hotel because she won't make it to San Francisco tonight, the destination she told him she was headed to. Jayne heeds the officer's advice and stops at a motel alongside a cliff. A mother and son run the motel and argue fiercely as she tries to check in to a room. The son, Arthur, finally leads her to the cabin where she will be staying. Rather than drop her things off and leave, Arthur stays in the room and intimidates Jayne with his presence and his odd demeanor. He eventually asks Jayne if she would like to help him kill his mother. Arthur's mother, Birdie, interrupts them by entering the room. She tells Jayne that Arthur asks every guest this question, and drags her demented son away. Later that night, Jayne wakes up to Arthur in her room. He has discovered the stolen film canister, and opens it to look at Jayne's naked body in the negative image, with fake blood dripping down it. When he smiles, Jayne sees Hitchcock in the young man's face and she snaps. She wraps the film around his neck and tries to strangle him. Birdie comes in and saves her son from strangulation, and for the first time Jayne realizes that the two do in fact love each other, in a twisted sort of way. She reflects on this relationship and accepts that everyone must accept their fate, no matter how brutal, because it is the only one they have.