Al and Nikki, inseparable since they met in juvenile detention, make a living through petty crime: Nikki picks up men in bars, drugs them, and then helps Al rob them. But when their latest mark dies and they find that he's carrying a videotape of a prominent footballer engaged in sexual activites with an underage boy, they flee Adelaide and head across the Nullarbor Plain to Perth, pursued by the footballer and the police. But the strain of the journey brings up the traumas of Nikki's past, and the people they encounter begin to turn up dead ...