Plot

A reclusive screenwriter takes in a mysterious drifter who is determined to repay his kindness by helping him finish his latest story.

Outside a mountain town grappling with a series of abductions and murders, Paul (Antonio Banderas), a reclusive writer, struggles to start what he hopes will be a career-saving screenplay. After a tense encounter at a diner with a drifter named Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Paul offers Jack a place to stay-and soon the edgy, demanding Jack muscles his way into Paul's work and the two men begin a jagged game of one-upmanship that will bring at least one tale to an end.

Secluded in a remote rural area, and holed up in a dilapidated farmhouse he can no longer afford, the reclusive and once-successful screenwriter, Paul Lopez, drowns his sorrows, in a futile attempt to overcome a chronic writer's block. However, a spirited verbal altercation followed by an unexpectedly gallant rescue will get Paul a front-row seat to a tense backwoods drama, when the author unwisely decides to take in his saviour: the ex-con vagabond, Jack. Little by little, as Jack worms his way into Paul's life, strange things start to happen--and what is even more surprising--Jack is bent on making his host a better man. Now, it's either that or death. Can Paul escape from this relentless nightmare?—Nick Riganas

Writer Paul/Antonio Banderas has writer's block. He can't sell his cabin in a mountain area with 4 abductions/murders in 3 years. He clashes with a trucker at a diner but Jack steps in. Paul gives him a ride and bed in his cabin. Jack suggest: Tell our story.—Scott Filtenborg