Psychotica is a feature film about a college student named Carrick, struggling with both a guilty conscience and addiction. Having been raised by his mother, herself an alcoholic, Carrick has come to see his college alcohol councilor Abbott as something of a father figure. Privately, the councilor has fallen off the wagon and is losing his grasp of reality. The struggling man uses Carrick's addiction and guilt to manipulate him into going along on a homicidal road trip to hunt down his ex-wife.