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R.C. (Lynn Collins) recently moved
into a shoddy roadside motel in hopes of avoiding her menacing and recently
paroled ex-husband Jerry (Harry Connick Jr.). Upon making the acquaintance of
subdued former soldier Peter (Michael Shannon), a veteran of the first Gulf War,
Agnes finally senses that things are looking up. Quietly charming despite his
melancholy aura, Peter soon reveals to Agnes that he had contracted a "bug"
while serving in the Middle East, and that it may have been deliberately
administered as part of a secret military medical experiment. Convinced that the
microscopic insects are quickly multiplying just under the surface of his skin
and that they have now infected Agnes as well, Peter soon descends into a
psychotic rage as he resorts to increasingly desperate measures to purge himself
of the offending, sub-dermal arthropods.
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