It’s the year 2008. America is in bad shape. To millennials the digital world provides solace. What happens when a teenager turns his back on the social network, runs away from a planned life offered by home and school, steals a car and heads down the road? This is a story of a brief life that will end in suicide but that, if anything, seems life-affirming. It’s an adventure update to Holden Caulfield, and evocative of On the Road, a tragicomedy and a decoding of what has shaped generation Y.