Nelda Thorne hits the road when life in her rural Georgia home town gets too hot to handle. As she goes from one disaster to another, she struggles with the thing she understands least-relationships with men. Along the way, she learns something about men and even more about herself. And she learns that what she wants most is to go back home. But the road home is blocked by the memory of her humiliation at the hands of Buddy Lawrence, a high school...