Conned out of thousands; his job gone; homeless; fleeing a vicious loan shark. It couldn’t get any worse for Stevie Reilly. Or could it?
Stevie Reilly is a loser. His job has gone down the tubes, which is pretty academic since he has just assaulted the vicious loan shark Jigger McPhee and one of his henchmen.
Knowing that McPhee will be scouring the neighbourhood for him to exact painful retribution, he flees his native city towards an uncertain future.
Later, lost on a dark, lonely moorland road he comes across Michelle, a tetchy, but very attractive headteacher whose car has broken down. Stevie offers to drive her to a nearby town for help despite her caustic attitude. On the way his car dies on him and the lights of the town below suddenly go out.
Steering into a layby, a strange drowsiness, then unconsciousness overcome him. He awakes, strangely in the passenger seat. When he finds out what has happened to him he realises that the worst day of his life has gone downhill big style, in a way he never thought possible. The slumbering Michelle, in the driver’s seat, also wakens, reacting with outrage towards Stevie at what has befallen her.
However, both soon accept that they are inexorably bound together as they contemplate their bizarre predicament.