May 16, 2008: In the span of a single day, Amal Chakravarthy calls off his arranged marriage, comes out to his conservative -- and very unhappy -- parents, goes on a bender... and wakes up the next morning to find TJ, a lanky, dreadlocked vagrant, frying eggs and singing Paul Simon in his kitchen.

TJ claims that the two have made a drunken pact to drive cross-country from Berkeley, California to Provodence, Rhode Island. As it happens, Amal promised his sister he'd be in Providence for her graduation from Brown University. And TJ, well... TJ has his own reasons.

The agreement is simple: Amal does the driving, while TJ pays the way -- but a 3500 mile journey leaves plenty of time for things to get complicated.