When a job ends with her boyfriend dead, a homeless getaway driver flees into the outback, only to find herself pursued by something far more terrifying than the murderous criminals she’s running from.

SYNOPSIS:

When getaway driver, Jan, allows herself to be talked into working a job for The Old Man, it ends with her ex-boyfriend dead, and her on the run from a white-supremacist, motorcycle cult.

Days later, Jan is exhausted and deep in the Australian outback, when she stops at a remote roadhouse in Duffers Flat. There she is warned of a strange entity “not of this world” that stalks the road ahead. However the warning is immediately forgotten, when members of the motorcycle cult arrive, forcing her to flee into the night.

Soon after, Jan is shocked to discover that the strange entity is actually real, when it begins to pursue her. The chase ends when she crashes her car while avoiding an SUV parked in the middle of the road.

When Jan regains consciousness, she searches for the occupants, but they are nowhere to be found. With her car bogged, Jan takes the SUV only to find Lucy, the surviving occupant of the SUV, a short time later.

Over the rest of the night, the two women reluctantly become a team as they battle for survival against the motorcycle cult, The Old Man and his mercenaries, and “the big, black tumbleweed thing with claws”.

The night ends back in Du ers Flat. Lucy with a life-threatening wound, Jan exhausted beyond endurance ... and the “big, black tumbleweed” waiting and hungry.

• Screenplay and Pitch Deck available upon request: robert@assortedprojects.net