No one has ever made peace with fate in a more relaxed and touching way. Frank Bascombe, now 74, embarks on one last adventure: with his son Paul in a motorhome from Minnesota to Mount Rushmore. They've never been close, but now they don't have much time left, because Paul is terminally ill. Ford sends his heroes on an odyssey through the seemingly mundane attractions in the heart of the country, revealing with each provincial backwater a new facet of the American life we think we know so well.