After a surprise phone call from his old college girlfriend, Jordan Sterling, a disenchanted New York writer, misses his plane and plunges into a harrowing hitch-hiking odyssey to his college reunion in Ohio. Despite being stopped by a sheriff and getting smashed in the head by a flying beer bottle along the highway, Jordan finally manages to hitch a ride to his old college campus. In an attempt to rekindle romance with his old flame, Jordan learns a powerful lesson about living in the past.