A young runaway, Mary Jo, is blackmailed into working on a remote farm by an abusive couple, Luisa and George. While Luisa uses physical violence to keep Mary Jo in line to do her bidding, George has other, more sinister motives. After suffering a blow to the head, Mary Jo insists that the scarecrow in the cornfield is a real man and claims it to be her true love. Will this mysterious scarecrow help to free Mary Jo from her captors… or is she really just delusional?