After suffering an unbearable loss a man takes a road trip in an attempt to find solace and encounters beauty brutality and beguiling characters along the way in this darkly thrilling novel. Grieving the deaths of his wife and infant daughter Nathan Soderquist decides to journey westward across the continent documenting the ever-changing sky in brief entries of ravishing poetry. Desperately lonely and with nothing left to lose he drives through vacant landscapes committing acts of violence nobility cowardice and bravery all the while trying to save the world from evil. After his recklessness leads to an accident that leaves his body broken he heals and continues his journey on bicycle before that is taken from him as well. Bent on revenge he sets out again on foot and a violent midnight confrontation puts him on a path that could lead to either destruction or redemption.
