Jim has abandoned his responsible adult life in Omaha, and when his car breaks down in Tucson, he takes a job as a substitute teacher at Lester Preparatory Academy, a sketchy private school for rich, wayward youth. Crystal’s wealthy LA parents have dumped her in Lester after she’s had one too many dangerous dalliances.
Neither Jim or Crystal know where they belong except in flight. Together they travel through the Southwest in all of its vast sweeping beauty and desultory rhythms, inhabiting the burns of its textures, hoping to find something like a home.