Holden, a world weary young man intent on suicide, is taking his last ride to a place filled with sentimental value. Along the way, in a roadside motel, he meets Billie, a battered young woman in a relationship she wants out of. Billie has a history of bad decisions, but places everything on her decision to leave with the stranger Holden. The two drive through the harsh desert landscape together. Billie begins to chip away at the hard front Holden has worked so hard to put up. She is trying to convince herself as much as Holden that they have met for a reason. As he slowly lets her in, they form a bond made from innocence as if it is the first they’ve known. They camp out under the stars and dance in the moonlight realizing that in each other they have found what neither was able to find in the past, happiness. The world Holden found meaningless has suddenly found meaning. Billie, always short changed by life, finds a soul mate in the unlikeliest place. As in best of film noir, People Like Us is not satisfied leaving its two characters to live happily ever after, something has got to give and it gives in the worst possible way.
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