Feeling responsible for his parents' divorce, David falls into bouts of depression and excessive drinking. Despite friends' attempts to find David a girlfriend, the only thing that fights off what he terms his "black empty" is getting wasted. Then he meets and falls for the beautiful and beguiling Kris. Kris is running away from an abusive family but refuses to talk about it. David takes Kris on a vacation where she turns inexplicably distant. David's black empty returns, he gets wasted and while he's passed out, Kris is raped by a local townie. Desperate to win back the only person who's...