In an authoritarian world, a young worker is promoted to handle the most valuable item in existence when a mysterious woman appears and offers an escape.
Russ lives and works at a motel with his father. When a seemingly sick girl and her mother come through, Russ becomes fascinated and tries to befriend the girl.
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.