Highway Sailor: A Rollicking American Journey

When the woman Jake Massry lives with leaves him for another man because he can't succeed as a writer, and his Old World father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a "real" job, Jake hits the highways of America in his worn-out VW bus in search of himself and his country. It's spring 1974 and President Nixon is embroiled in the Watergate fiasco. As he travels from place to place, Jake meets America: sexy women, gays, born-again Christians, philosophers, racists, bullies and Gary Morse, a 19-year-old hitchhiker who possesses a large "red ruby" given to him by a young heiress.