17-year-old Rick Delmont has problems. He's never met his mother, and his father Neal is neurotic, refusing to replace their twenty-year-old truck that is literally falling apart and suffering horrible nightmares and panic attacks that have crushed the happy, warm man he once was. One night, Rick gets lost in thought about his life driving and hits a person with his truck. But this isn't a normal person, and Rick literally runs off into an adventure that will change his life forever.