 Anne Winter (Elle Poindexter) lives a life of depression, masochism and isolation in the small Oregon town in which she is a ballet teacher. Suicidal and unable to deal with her sexuality, she retreats deeper into her dark world of nightmares after having spent too much time with her eighteen-year-old ballet student, Kate (Tara Walker) with whom she cannot reconcile her feelings. Kate was just someone to pass the time with for a while. Love could not be a possibility. Or is it? To make matters worse, she is having a loveless affair with Kate s father. Anne thought her life was as miserable as possible until her abusive ex-husband, James, unexpectedly arrives back in town. Will Kate be able to convince Anne to come with her and escape the town that will bring them both down with it s misery, or will Anne endlessly continue into the downward spiral that is engulfing her?