TEENAGE HITCHHIKERS

Mouse and Bird are struggling to find assistance in traveling west in an attempt to start a new life. After several failed attempts at hitchhiking, a rock band traveling with a pair of groupies in a recreational vehicle pulls over and allows the girls inside. After the band performs a song, they state that they will not provide them with transportation unless the duo agree to have sexual intercourse with them. They immediately decline as they refuse to be objectified. Thus, Mouse and Bird are kicked out of the vehicle.

After traveling across the highway, the girls approach a river where Bird unintentionally catches a trout in her underwear. Having gone days without food due to not having any money, they perform a brief striptease in a nearby diner in an attempt to get their meal paid for by a middle aged customer but to no avail. Not wanting to be victimized, Mouse and Bird decide that they need to be the ones taking advantage of people in their predicaments in order to obtain money.

Subsequently, they hear reports of an escaped rapist and are told not to hitch-hike. In the woods, the rapist from the news reports attempts to assault a young girl named Jennie. Mouse and Bird devise a plan to save her and tie the rapist up. Jennie decides to join them with their travels. Upon buying a car with money they obtained, the girls soon find themselves involved in an orgy. The next morning, they find their purses and car stolen and realize they are in the same dire predicament they started out in.

After rescuing Jennie from an escaped rapist, Mouse and Bird continue their travels, only to have their newfound car and purses stolen following an orgy. They realize they are back to where they started, still searching for a way forward.

The ending underscores the cyclical nature of Mouse and Bird's journey, where every attempt at gaining independence is met with new setbacks. Their resilience and refusal to be victimized, however, remain central to the film's spirit, suggesting that the pursuit of freedom is as important as achieving it—even if the path is littered with misadventures and reversals. The film lands with a wry commentary on the paradoxes of liberation and survival in a world where agency and vulnerability constantly collide.