Robert has buckled under the weight of his father's death and collapse of his marriage. He rashly leaves it all behind, stumbling into the world of dirtbag rockclimbing. Robert embarks on a riotous cross country odyssey driven by his noble quest to discover the Dirtbag Dao, a body of eternal truths that might set him free. In a magical trip that relentlessly exposes man's naked absurdity, the voyage takes the reader deep into the bowels of the American experience. Mile by mile, Robert get's closer to finding himself, but will it be too late to save his own son, Finn?