1974. The year of Watergate, Nixons resignation and the Patti Hearst kidnapping. Frank Downes is a twenty four year old Londoner living out his hitchhiking dreams across the USA. But Frank has unfinished business back in London. As his eventful journey takes him from the bars of New York to the juke joints of Louisiana, the back roads of Texas and the fleshpots of Hollywood, Frank finds the past is not so easy to leave behind.