The films opens with a desperate woman, wearing nothing but a trenchcoat, running and hitchhiking alone at night. She forces one car to stop by staying in the middle of the road: the driver almost crashes but still lets her in. He is mad at her and does not care that the woman is visibly distressed. He even says that he suspects that she has been raped (which is not the case) but he does not seem to care. However, he eventually calms down and helps her. At the end of this opening sequence, both are kidnapped by a group of men and the woman (naked) is tortured to death (we only see her bare legs shaking).