At the beginning, instead of confessing the truth, the protagonist pretends to be a police detective. When his lover is brutally killed, the protagonist chooses to avoid his grief by sleeping with a seductive but older woman in the motel. When the motel is threatened by the murderer, the protagonist becomes very violent, not only to the murderer but also to other motel residents. Convinced that he is actually trapped in his own dream, the protagonist smashes his own head in the wall to “wake up”.
