Dan's memoir, mostly truth, part fiction is based upon a true story. It is a tribute to his older brother Rich, whom he will always consider a casualty of the post-Vietnam era. Rich mysteriously reappears along with his '66 GTO convertible and coerces Dan to retrace the cross-country route he took back in '70 to settle in a commune in Corrales, New Mexico. Along the way they relive memories of the brief 18 years they shared growing up in a single parent household of five kids. In the absence of Dan's father, he wanted to be just like his older brother, Rich.