A man who is out of prison on parole in New Jersey steals a car and drives West.

A jazz band drives through the night to make a rehearsal in the Jim Crow South. When they stop at a gas station for dinner, the band members' nonstop antics cause them to make enemies.

A woman driving through California picks up a hitchhiking man, sparking her to reflect on the ways she is perceived, and desires to be perceived, as a woman in a male-dominated world.