"Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it." With these opening words by the venerable American writer, Henry Miller, a young man named Sean McAllister begins an American journey across the landscape of America. The year is 1968, a time of assassination, war, and tumultuous change. Within the drumbeat and searing divisions of Vietnam, McAllister, like so many of his generation, takes to the streets in student protest, finds his way to Woodstock, hitchhikes across the continent, before suffering the disability of a first lost love....