With involvement in Vietnam a fading national memory (1982), 20-year-old Lilly Anne Lebris and 22-year-old Marshall Tucker Skye meet serendipitously on a two-lane highway in western Colorado. Both fleeing private, personal tragedies, and accompanied by a mysterious shaggy-haired dog, they decide to continue their journey together—for safety, for solace, and perhaps even for answers. Falling in love was the last thing on their minds.