When a young woman disappears after a weekend with her boyfriend, her worried family wonders what could have happened; the boyfriend claims she left with a male friend, but the friend denies it; someone is lying, and detectives must find the truth.

When a young man leaves his troubled life in the city behind for a peaceful desert town, he finds love among the desert heat; when he is brutally gunned down inside his own home, police wonder if his past has come back to haunt him.