Men drink alone for only two reasons: some to drown their sorrows, others to quiet their demons. A homeless drifter with lethal compulsions, Johnny's reasons for nursing whiskey in an empty Memphis roadhouse are clearly the latter. But his efforts to curb his urges are broken when Matt Frost arrives at the hole in the wall bar to escape the despair that has plagued him after the loss of his wife. These two very different men find they have much more in common than the drive to drink.