 An abandoned teen (Maurice Compte) jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen (Paddy O Connor), who escorts him to his uncle. Finding his uncle equally broke, the duo head on to Oklahoma City to try to find the first teen s long-gone ex-con father. A confrontation between father and son send the duo on into exploits in the west including getting beaten up, busting into an Indian reservation church, and hitch-hiking with a beautiful nurse (Jeanne Heaton).