 Leila Murray is a young, married receptionist at a small town motel who is selling her body, secretly to buy something she desperately needs but dreads being given. One October night she meets a man named Gary Jensen, a dark soulmate who leads Leila into deeper water where the past lives and the future dies. For Leila is exercising a darker truth, reliving the passion of her murdered mother, uncertain whether she will survive Suspicious River or indeed, if she even wants to.