Remember when you're mother told you never to pick up hitch-hikers? When a young man transporting a car to another state picks up a lonely drifter on the road he finds himself walking on thin ice...

Remember when you're mother told you never to pick up hitch-hikers? When a young man transporting a car to another state picks up a lonely drifter on the road he finds himself walking on thin ice when the drifter turns out to a serial killer. The boy soon finds himself in more trouble when the police blame a series of murders on him and he is stalked by the hitch-hiker.