A drifting Vietnam veteran, Eddy, and an Amerasian girl, Tam, who he has taken under his wing travel around the country, stopping at night to gaze through picture windows of suburban homes as if watching foreign television. Tam dreams the American Dream of living inside one of these homes as part of a real family. When fundamentalist Christians take her into their home, she thinks her dream has come true, but the dream turns into a dark and eerie nightmare