Derek, a young man indebted to his sleep and schoolwork fractures his perception of reality as his association of alarm and anxiety is numbed by the repetition of his stresses.
Wyoming, 1890. A drunken cowboy finds himself tied to a tree in the middle of nowhere with no recollection of how he got there. His kidnapper, another cowboy, tries to get him to remember the events that lead up to it as the two tell stories contradict each other. Only one is telling the truth.
