David, an American photographer, and his Russian girlfriend Katia are scouting locations for a photo shoot. During the day, they drive through some of the wildest, most bizarre desert landscapes, but their luck begins to run out.

David is an independent American photographer in pursuit of unspoiled natural locations for an upcoming magazine photo shoot. Katia is his unemployed Russian girlfriend, who would follow him anywhere because she is in love. Together, they discover the vast desert around Twentynine Palms, the city of palm trees. There, the passionate lovers surrender to the miracle of nature and make love between fights and compromises. However, they are utterly unaware that danger lurks even under the sun.—Nick Riganas

David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of Twentynine Palms and spend their days in their sport-utility vehicle, discovering the Joshua Tree Desert, and losing themselves on nameless roads and trails. Frantically making love all the time and almost everywhere, they regularly fight, then kiss and make up, with little else going on in their empty relationship and quite ordinary daily life--until something horrible and hideous brutally puts an end to their trip.—anonymous