A fat, rich kid recounts the week he flew to the West Coast with his father and his friends to "see a cow."

When he accompanies his father to Long Island, seventeen-year-old Ox is unprepared for the bittersweet experiences that follow his meeting with an unusual girl.

Ox Olmstead, an extremely wealthy Palm Beach boy, embarks on an odyssey through Florida with a mixed-up boy who is searching for his mother.