mute

Synopsis

Monette, a middle-aged salesman, picks up a deaf/mute hitchhiker on the road. The hitchhiker falls asleep and Monette vents his problems, knowing they fall on deaf ears. He rants angrily about his wife’s infidelity and her embezzlement from her employer. When Monette returns from a public toilet, the hitchhiker has disappeared. Monette thinks nothing of it until two days later his wife and her lover are found murdered.