Carl Moore is an auto mechanic and a small-town boy in a small town in eastern Oregon. He longs for adventure, tired from being tied down to his troubled family life and the town's judgement.
Then a drifter named Allen comes to town and takes a job as a cook at the local diner. It's friendship at first sight which quickly turns to like, but just as their friendship progresses, disaster strikes town, and Carl and Allen are forced to flee.
When they return, their troubles are only beginning, this time in the form of a man from Allen's past as well as Carl's father.
