It definitely isn't that Derrick doesn't love his wife, more like it's really difficult to best recall such love when she's giving him nothing short of hell in one of the most hellish places for a breakdown on the planet.
Susanna is red hot, more than just attractive, from her red hair down, but right now she's red for other reasons and the scorching desert sun above is not one of them. It was all her idea, Derrick thinks, her idea or her sister's to have a spontaneous trip for the weekend, a trip that required her and he traveling by rental car across the desert to meet up for some supposed fun little gathering.
Derrick has always been loyal to his wife, and they've had good times, but when Susanna isn't getting her way, when things aren't going absolutely flawlessly, she can be a serious pain to be around. All she has been doing since the rental car broke down and they began the desert hike back to a bus station Derrick remembered passing is bitch and bitch and bitch. Thankfully, just when he's quite close to choosing the circling vultures over the nagging wife, Derrick and Susanna come upon the bus station.
It's late in the day, the sun finally setting but that certainly isn't going to cool down Susanna, particularly when Derrick breaks the news that it seems the only bus heading west in the right direction doesn't leave until midnight.
The hours pass and Susanna seems to cool, if only by chatting up the other passengers waiting for the bus, Derrick getting several tongue lashings for his admittedly fascinated repeated staring at the cute young goth girl, Zoey as Susanna finds out.
In some distant corner of his mind, Derrick always had a thing for goth girls though he isn't entirely sure it's not simply because goth is about the most extreme opposite of Susanna. She's feisty, sexy, mind-blowingly intelligent, and all redhead, but there are days when the bad outweighs the good and today has definitely been one of those days.
As time comes to board, Susanna is continuously outraged by the creepy slob of a driver leering at her, somehow blaming Derrick for that as she blames everything. Derrick is distracting himself and calming himself with idle thoughts of Zoey, and the remaining passengers compile their little oddball assortment. From the all business, no time to talk, high maintenance blonde who seems more than a bit racist to the cute pair that seem like siblings but mostly aren't though it's complicated, everyone there has a story.
Their stories are about to get rewritten as this bus is going to hit a bump in the road which spins the route off on a direct path to hell, thanks to the mysterious arrival of an additional man on board, not there one second, there the next, calling himself simply Mr. Bub.
Mr. Bub has come to punish just two of the passengers, the rest as he calls them friendly fire unfortunately.
Who are the two? Why are they being punished? What sorts of chaos await all passengers aboard the midnight bus through the desert? And of course the ultimate question... just what destination is this bus now going to reach?
Find out and take a trip on the wildest bus ride of your life with Mr. Bub as he leads everyone down the Highway to Hell.
