Stuck in a rut, Charlie (Beau Bridges) toils away in a boring clerical job and is somewhat reluctantly engaged to his pretty fiancée, Betty (Janet Margolin). When Charlie embarks on an uncharacteristically impromptu road trip with his fast-talking, trouble-seeking friend Mike (Ron Leibman), they end up on a hedonistic, convention-bucking journey up the California coastline. How will this liberating trek affect the repressed Charlie and his future?
Stuck in a rut, Charlie (Beau Bridges) toils away in a boring clerical job and is somewhat reluctantly engaged to his pretty fiancée, Betty (Janet Margolin). When Charlie embarks on an uncharacteristically impromptu road trip with his fast-talking, trouble-seeking friend Mike (Ron Leibman), they end up on a hedonistic, convention-bucking journey...