Bare

Sarah Barton has a somewhat boring life in a desert town in Nevada. She still lives with her mother, she works as a cashier, and she has a boyfriend, but she is not eager to marry. Shorty after getting fired, Sarah meets a female drifter called Pepper. Satah is intrigued by the other woman. and she offers her hospitality. Sarah starts imitating Pepper's partying lifestyle, and she neglects her increasingly frustrated boyfriend. When Pepper decides to travel to Reno, Sarah impulsively tags along. Pepper cons a gambler to finance their game at a local casino. Pepper claims that she is the bartender of a local strip club, and she helps Sarah to get hired there as a stripper. Sarah soon learns that Pepper is a fellow stripper. The two women make some mutual confessions, and they make love to each other during a short drip in the desert. A number of fellow strippers warn Sarah that Pepper used to work as a recruiter for strip clubs, and that she has a reputation for seducing and using her female lovers. Sarah starts doubting her lover's sincerity. During a bar fight, Sarah is arrested for drug possession and her mother soon bails her out. Sarah gets disillusioned with Pepper's self-destructive behavior, with the holier-than-thou attitude of her old friends, and with her own mother's apparent willingness to turn her into a wage slave. Sarah is last seen hitch-hiking her way out of down, apparently becoming a drifter.