Fred, a saxophonist, is tormented by the idea that his wife Renee is unfaithful. Soon he is faced with even more serious worries: someone is watching and filming him at home, leaving video tapes at the door. When Renee is murdered, Fred ends up in prison, but one day he is no longer in his cell. He seems to have turned into a young mechanic, having an affair with a gangster's wife, the blonde Alice, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the dead Renee. "The Forgotten Highway is David Lynch's uncomfortable seventh film, a film that relies more on the logic of dreams than on rationality, that travels through the infinite labyrinth of the human psyche, and that ingeniously exploits the potential of the media.