After his children are killed in a car accident, an already troubled man finally breaks loose and launches himself on an odyssey across the United States, leaving wreckage in one form or another at every stop he makes. On a months long trek that starts in the Northeast and ends in a diner in Arizona, Jarvis Davenport scorches his way across state after state in an ever accelerating booze-soaked, cocaine-fuelled frenzy. Whether it's a jilted waitress, a bloodied software salesman, gangsters in a shot up trap house, or a lonely housewife that couldn't say no, Jarvis is remembered at every stop he makes.
When he accepts a ride through the desert with a seemingly stable truck driver, Jarvis' travels take a hard turn from adventure to horror. Escaping with his life, he continues westward and hunkers down in a seedy motel not only with his own demons, but also with the ones he thought he'd left behind in the badlands.
His final stand is not a quiet one.
Finding himself in the rifle-sights of law enforcement snipers, as well as under the simultaneous scrutiny and reverence of people across the nation, Jarvis' odyssey comes to an end.
When the backlash settles, he's able to make his way back to his childhood home and start it all again. A new life, propelled by hope and void of the mistakes of his past, lies ahead of him.
The only question is whether or not his demons followed.
