Step in from the cold, through the saloon door of the strangest bar in creation. "The Greyhound pulled away into the thunderous summer storm, leaving in its wake a dishevelled, world-weary figure in the dark, deserted bus station." In a Hicksville town in the western desert Richard is a man come to the end of the road. Grieving after the death of his wife he has travelled the back roads of America in search of an answer...