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.
Tropes:
- Ambiguously Bi: 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.
- Auto Erotica: Rayna starts fingering Joey in the car before she leaves for the Army.
- Bathtub Scene: Rayna and Joey share a bath together while discussing their relationship, with them both shown topless in the tub.
- Closet Gay: 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 and at the end she returns to him.
- Interrupted Intimacy: Rayna and Joey are having sex in the hay loft of a barn where the latter works before her employer interrupts things.
- Love at First Sight: 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.
- Love Confession: About halfway into the film, Rayna and Joey confess they love each other while in bed.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Joey foolishly goes AWOL and runs off with Rayna (plus Rayna's kids) in spite of her judgment being against it. 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.
- Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: 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, plus an overall girly manner.
- Modesty Bedsheet: Joey wakes up with the sheets around her chest in Rayna's bed the morning after the two have sex the first night.
- No Ending: 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.
- Roll in the Hay: Rayna eats Joey out in the hay loft.
- Secretly Gay Activity: Joey starts to work for Rayna as her daughters' babysitter to cover them spending time together as lovers.
- Secret Relationship: Rayna, who's married to a man with two girls, starts seeing Joey, another woman, secretly.
- Sexy Discretion Shot:
- 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.
- Sexy Silhouette: Rayna is shown in silhouette taking her shirt off while sharing a tent with Joey while they prepare to have sex there.
- Title Drop: Rayna wants Joey to go AWOL from the Army, which she eventuually does do.
- Tomboyish Name: 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.
- Toplessness from the Back: Rayna is shown naked from behind as she gets up out of bed once, then her breast as well from the side.
- Twofer Token Minority: 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.
- Wrench Wench: Joey studies auto repair in the Army, so she can service not only the Army's vehicles but later cars professionally on leaving.
