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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Rayna eats Joey out in the hay loft.


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* RollInTheHay: Rayna eats Joey out in the hay loft.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: The only person of color in the film with more than one scene is Haley, who's a black lesbian who Joey hooks up with.
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* SecretlyGayActivity: Joey starts to work for Joey as her daughters' babysitter to cover them spending time together as lovers.

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* SecretlyGayActivity: Joey starts to work for Joey Rayna as her daughters' babysitter to cover them spending time together as lovers.
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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Joey is a mildly butch woman, with shorter hair starting out, often wearing a ball cap and sleeveless shirts. Rayna, her girlfriend, has long hair with more low cut blouses and jean shorts, with more of a girly manner.

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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Joey is a mildly butch woman, with shorter hair starting out, often wearing a ball cap and sleeveless shirts. Rayna, her girlfriend, has long hair with more low cut blouses and jean shorts, with more of a plus an overall girly manner.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Rayna and Joey are having sex in the hay loft of a barn where the latter works before her employer interrupts things.
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* LoveTriangle: Joey at first is seeing Rayna, but doesn't like that she's [[ClosetGay in the closet]], while married to a man. Then she meets an out lesbian named Haley, feeling attracted to her too, having sex with her on leave from the Army.
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* LoveConfession: After halway into the film, Rayna and Joey confess they love each other while in bed.

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* LoveConfession: After halway About halfway into the film, Rayna and Joey confess they love each other while in bed.
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* ClosetGay: Rayna is in the closet about her attraction to other women, seeing one (Joey) secretly. Joey wants her to come out and leave her husband for her. Rayna though resists this at first.

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* ClosetGay: Rayna is in the closet about her attraction to other women, seeing one (Joey) secretly. Joey wants her to come out and leave her husband for her. Rayna though resists this [[spoiler:and at first.the end she returns to him]].
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* BathScene: Rayna and Joey share a bath together while discussing their relationship, with them both shown topless in the tub.

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* BathScene: BathtubScene: Rayna and Joey share a bath together while discussing their relationship, with them both shown topless in the tub.
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[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/awol_9.jpg]]
Joey comes from a small town and bent on improving her life. She sets herself on enlisting in the US Army for that to learn useful skills and attend college with their support. Then she meets Rayna, a married woman, and the pair begin a passionate affair, risking everything Joey's aiming for.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: Rayna is married to a man, with two daughters. As a waitress she flirts as well with men for tips, but has an affair with another woman, Joey, while it's left unclear if she actually likes men or not.
* AutoErotica: Rayna starts fingering Joey in the car before she leaves for the Army.
* BathScene: Rayna and Joey share a bath together while discussing their relationship, with them both shown topless in the tub.
* ClosetGay: Rayna is in the closet about her attraction to other women, seeing one (Joey) secretly. Joey wants her to come out and leave her husband for her. Rayna though resists this at first.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Joey and Rayna fall for each right off. They have sex on the very first night they meet, and soon start a passionate affair after this, pledging love for each other too.
* LoveConfession: After halway into the film, Rayna and Joey confess they love each other while in bed.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Joey foolishly goes AWOL and runs off with Rayna (plus Rayna's kids) in spite of her judgment being against it. [[spoiler:Then after they get turned back at the Canadian border as a result of not having passports, Joey gets dumped by Rayna who goes back with her husband anyway.]]
* LoveTriangle: Joey at first is seeing Rayna, but doesn't like that she's [[ClosetGay in the closet]], while married to a man. Then she meets an out lesbian named Haley, feeling attracted to her too, having sex with her on leave from the Army.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Rayna eats Joey out in the hay loft.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Joey is a mildly butch woman, with shorter hair starting out, often wearing a ball cap and sleeveless shirts. Rayna, her girlfriend, has long hair with more low cut blouses and jean shorts, with more of a girly manner.
* ModestyBedsheet: Joey wakes up with the sheets around her chest in Rayna's bed the morning after the two have sex the first night.
* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Joey walks off toward the border after Rayna leaves her in tears, then the film ends after an offscreen border guard asks for her passport.]]
* SecretlyGayActivity: Joey starts to work for Joey as her daughters' babysitter to cover them spending time together as lovers.
* SecretRelationship: Rayna, who's married to a man with two girls, starts seeing Joey, another woman, secretly.
* SexyDiscretionShot:
** Joey and Rayna kiss after meeting at a party. Then the scene cuts to Joey waking the next morning in Rayna's bed.
** Later, the scene cuts while Joey and Haley are about to have sex, with the latter handing over a strap-on dildo for this.
* SexySilhouette: Rayna is shown in silhouette taking her shirt off while sharing a tent with Joey while they prepare to have sex there.
* TitleDrop: Rayna wants Joey to go AWOL from the Army, which she eventuually does do.
* TomboyishName: Joey, a mildly butch lesbian, uses this. It's a nickname for Joanna, but she clearly prefers this, only using her full name once when asked. Her mom later uses it as well once.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Rayna is shown naked from behind as she gets up out of bed once, then her breast as well [[{{Sideboob}} from the side]].
* WrenchWench: Joey studies auto repair in the Army, so she can service not only the Army's vehicles but later cars professionally on leaving.
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