Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a blueprint for success.

Ellis and his college buddies, tired of taking the hits from an endless lack of gainful employment, take their dire circumstances into their own hands on the open road -- trading in their college degrees for a life of money, sex, adventure and the high stakes of escapism.