Anya is the victim of a deep deception: someone lied to her and as a result she is kept under lock and key, used by her employer to service men, and indebted for the privilege. In exchange, she lives in the US, dreaming of American freedom. Much of I-5 transpires on the eponymous interstate. Anya travels with her manager and driver from LA to Oakland, in a brutal journey which incorporates a visit to a correctional facility and a rendevouz with an organ grinder.