The film was written and directed by Edward Anderson, and stars Tony Curran, Peyton List, and Cameron Goodman.

[1] Mel (Peyton List) and Jules (Cameron Goodman) are best friends returning to Los Angeles from a trip in Mexico.

Seth and Matt see them and attempt to board, but the Driver tells them he can only make three stops at a time.

While taking an unusual detour, they are run off the road by a car, and the Driver gets out to survey the damage, which turns out to be a flat tire.

He informs them of a "change of plans", and drives them to an enclosed ATM for Jules to withdraw money.

Mel escapes, but the Driver shouts at her that he will let Jules suffocate from smoke inhalation if she doesn't return to the bus.

At a supermarket, Mel signs into the closed-circuit camera her plight and gives the clerk a note to check the recording.

When the driver walks towards them with a gun, Mel cuts the guy's wrist with the knife, and Matt hits him over the head with the bag.

Jules finds Andy dead and the driver and Mel unconscious; she flags down a passing car but while dialing 911 the bus runs over him.

Since Jules is of no use to the Driver since both girls must be in good health, he takes her onto the bus and gasses her with a tube connected to the exhaust.

They grapple for a minute before he forces her into a large wooden crate, which contains the items Mel purchased earlier in the grocery store: a flashlight, a loaf of bread, two jugs of water, two magazines, kitty litter, and a litter box, as well as her motion sickness pills.

While being carried away, she finds a photo of seven young white women in what looks like a filthy underground cellar.

It is heavily implied that these girls were also kidnapped by the Driver at some point and forced to become sex slaves overseas.

The final shot is of Mel's lost luggage turning up at the airport as another day begins.

The consensus says, "While this debut by Edward Anderson is economical and occasionally effective, Shuttle offers little catharsis after its tense ride.