A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Amy Post (played by Field) is a $20-a-trick hooker in Mobile, Alabama. One night she entertains Elmore Pratt (Jones), an ex-boxer who has just been fired from his job at a car wash. He cannot pay her for services rendered.
Pratt punches a plainclothes police officer. He and the prostitute hit the road together, intending to head for California, bickering along the way.

Amy Post is a prostitute who has never gotten over having given her only child up for adoption. When Amy meets a drifter named Elmore Pratt, she does not like him. But the two misfits are both dreaming of a better life, and so they take to the road, leaving the deep South and heading for California. Before long, they realize that they are falling in love with each other.