David Jenkins is a young adult in Oklahoma who works as a cattle geneticist. One day, as he exits a café to visit a client, a man with a gun gets in the car behind him and tells him to drive. The man, Ray, says that David must drive him to Montana, where they will meet with an old man, Weldon, and his daughter, Morsel, on their ranch. David does as he’s told. Once they arrive, they eat dinner with the family. David finds out that Ray’s gun is fake and gets ready to leave. Ray tells him to stay: Weldon is involved in the oxycontin trade and is willing to let Ray get in on it. David agrees, because he realizes that this is much more interesting than his normal life and that he could make a lot of money from it. Ray and David spend a few days on the ranch with the family. David calls his mother to tell her that he’ll pick up the work he was supposed to do later. He imagines what he would say if he were stopped with the drugs on him. Finally, David and Ray get the oxycontin shipment, and David drives it over to Modesto, California. However, when David opens the trunk, he realizes that the shipment isn’t there – he was duped.