Waitress Tara (Jennimay Walker) has made an attempt to leave her shady past behind. However, her former ‘boss’ Vince (Noel Gugliemi) has taken her daughter hostage and is insisting she tracks down her wayward sister who wasn’t lucky enough to escape the same syndicate. Rather than head to work, she is forced to spend the night as a driver for various seedy, nasty, and corrupt characters.

By setting most of the film in Tara’s car, director Clarice Paris creates a tense, claustrophobic atmosphere, making the most of the simple premise. Walker is great as the frustrated driver whose unwanted passengers cause her untold misery, which is heaped onto the stress she’s experiencing about her daughter. Each miscreant hanger-on brings her closer to her sister, which results in a fiery confrontation and satisfying pay-off.

It’s a brief movie, running just over an hour, but that means it’s also fairly lean, with little to no padding. It’s co-written by the director and Staci Layne Wilson (Shevenge) and it doesn’t pull any punches.