A motel on a highway that got bypassed.

• Coercion and quiet blackmail
• Fugitive status / obstruction of justice
• Grief and abandoned waiting
• Economic precarity and exploitation of labor
• Addiction (alcohol; past opioid dependence referenced)
• Domestic violence in backstory (not on-screen)
• Suicide ideation (referenced; not enacted on-screen)
• Bigotry shown through behaviour (small-town suspicion; slurs not written out)
• Sex cuts away at the door (desire, negotiation, and aftermath only)

Crisis lines by country: findahelpline.com

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.