A young widower sidesteps grief, loss, and familial dysfunction when he steals his wife's ashes and sets off on an impulsive odyssey through America's heartland to find something he'd lost long before her death.

Kissing an older man goodbye in San Francisco, a woman is next seen driving through the desert in a dark convertible car, stopping briefly to make a phone call at a lost gas station, and reaching Monument Valley where she meets another man.