Inspired by Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," Paul Carpetti, who is disillusioned with his life in 1964 suburbia, and fellow Kerouac enthusiast Duke Walczek begin hitchhiking to Florida to find their literary hero.
Furious with her father for breaking his promise to go camping with her at the end of the school term, sixteen-year-old Pat decides to hitchhike home to teach him a lesson.
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
Teresa is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast she picks up two hitchhikers and the three of them tell their stories. As they talk a darker side unfolds. It will be the longest night of Teresa's life, maybe the last one.
Teresa is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast she picks up two hitchhikers and the three of them tell their stories, and as they talk a darker side unfolds.
