in the morning without suggesting further contact. She strikes up a friendship with Irene, the woman who runs the motel who gives her breakfast. She asks vainly for a job but, after Heidi says that her mother is dead, Irene allows her to stay in the room and pay the following day. Irene warns her that the resort is now out of season and there are no jobs available. Heidi calls Joe at his parents' farm but he doesn't return her calls. Irene, knowing she doesn't have the money for the room, puts her in her son's flat, though she still wants rent in due course. In order to pay for it, Heidi needs a job, and is hired at a petrol station. Joe sees her by accident and they go for a drink and back to her flat. Her co-worker is Bianca and they become friends later on after Bianca's mother offers her a lift home, where Joe is waiting at her flat. This begins a tentative dating relationship between the two. One night, Joe and Heidi encounter some of his friends, who mock her for working in a petrol station. When Joe and Heidi go to a Chinese restaurant, she asks him if he loves her, and when he refuses to make any commitment or even discuss it, swallows a small bowl of hot chili peppers. He drags her to the bathroom to sick it up and takes her back to the motel. He then goes to a party where his friends who mocked Heidi are hanging out. After having a big fight with one of his friends over Heidi, he then visits a gay neighbour, Richard, who is in town for a few days clearing out his relative's house before it goes to auction. Joe tells him how much he is obsessed with Heidi. He is drinking a lot of whisky and is really drunk. Richard tells Joe he's too drunk to drive so he will drive him home, but Joe intercepts by kissing Richard who kisses him back. Richard says he doesn't think Joe knows what he wants. Joe says nothing and disappears presumably into Richard's bedroom. The next morning, Joe drives home and his father is reading the newspaper at the breakfast table. Joe tells his father he's drunk and begins to cry intensely in front of his father then he says he's alright. His