Stranded deep in the woods, an attractive married couple is taken in by an isolationist family, one that lives off the blood and plunder from lost hikers, who wants the couple to stay for the rest of their lives.

Gridlock is a film that examines the claustrophobia and momentum of evil–not a pure and all-encompassing evil, but the more pervasive cruelty and barbarism to which we are, all of us, ready to resort at a moment’s notice. It is the story of Job in the absence of God, told over the course of one miserable morning along the Los Angeles freeways.