Alone (2020)

While driving along a mountainous highway in Oregon to relocate, recently widowed Jessica encounters a hostile driver in a Jeep. As she tries to overtake him, he speeds up, nearly causing a collision with a semi-trailer truck. He then tailgates before veering off. Later, Jessica sees the same Jeep while refueling at a gas station.

After spending the night at a motel, Jessica is about to leave when the man from the Jeep appears, awkwardly apologizing for his earlier behavior. Jessica leaves, but soon encounters him again. He blocks the road, feigning injury with his arm in a sling and asks for a ride, claiming his car has broken down. Jessica, sensing danger, refuses and drives away. Later that night, she crashes when her trailer fishtails, discovering that the tire was slashed. The man appears, breaks into her car and drugs her; she later wakes up locked in a room in his remote cabin. He forces her to recount her husband’s suicide and hints at other previous victims.

The next morning, she hears the man leaving and manages to escape the room. She hides in a closet and overhears him lying to his wife on the phone, claiming he’ll be home soon. When he returns and starts searching for her, she seizes the opportunity to flee into the forest. The man chases her down after she injures her foot, but she escapes by leaping into a fast-flowing river.

Exhausted and in pain, Jessica stumbles upon a hunter named Robert, who offers her food, shoes and a ride. As they drive, their path is blocked by a fallen tree. The man appears once again, claiming that Jessica is his sister who’s having a psychotic episode following her husband’s death. Suspicious, Robert demands the man’s phone to call the police, leading to a violent confrontation where the man kills Robert with his hunting rifle. Jessica runs, triggering another desperate chase. She hides in a cave to escape the rain but is soon found by the man, who shoots her in the shoulder. Bleeding and weak, she submerges herself in a small pond to hide. The man attempts to lure her out but leaves when he fails.

The next morning, while the man disposes of Robert’s body, Jessica sneaks into his Jeep, steals his phone and hides in the trunk. As he drives, she calls 911 and then attacks him with a tire iron, causing him to crash and overturn the vehicle. Dazed, Jessica crawls out and spots a search and rescue helicopter nearby. She rushes into a clearing and, using the phone, calls the man’s wife to reveal the truth about him.

The man, now identified as Sam and severely injured, follows Jessica into the clearing, enraged by her call. She taunts him by putting the phone on speaker, exposing his true nature. In a final confrontation, Jessica overpowers Sam and fatally stabs him. As the helicopter descends, she watches him die, lying in exhausted relief.