In Deliverance, a group of friends from the city take a seemingly innocent weekend trip to canoe in rural Georgia. However, the weekend takes an unimaginable turn for the worse. The same drastic demise happens to Poughkeepsie, New York history teacher Albert Fentress one night when a young man happens to run onto his lawn. Watching Deliverance seems to have disturbed deeply rooted and hidden urges Albert had, all of which he acted upon after entering a psychotic state.