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"Child of Godard and Coca-Cola..."

That's what David Bell, twenty-eight-year-old New York television executive, calls himself. Living among fractured images, remote conversations, dark hints of distant wars and casual sex, David Bell feels as if he's stumbled into the obsessed world of a contemporary movie. To escape, he must make a movie himself.

And so, armed with his favorite camera, sharing a camper truck with a former fighter pilot, a drunken visionary, and a sculptress, David Bell sets out on a mad, careening expedition into the Great American Unknown...