Jake Johnson has been driving the I-80 corridor for eight years, finding freedom in the endless highways but accepting loneliness as the price of his independence. Every two weeks, Chicago to Sacramento and back - a routine as familiar as his own heartbeat.
Robert Campbell chose the road to escape a life that never quite fit. An ex-engineer turned trucker, he's spent three years running from everything he left behind, convinced that solitude is safer than risking his heart again.
When a late-night conversation at a truck stop diner brings them together, Jake and Robert discover they've been traveling the same routes for months - always just hours apart, like ships passing in the night. A chance encounter becomes radio conversations across state lines, shared meals at roadside diners, and stolen moments in the spaces between destinations.
But building a relationship on the highway isn't easy. Between delivery deadlines and thousand-mile separations, they'll have to decide if what they've found is worth rearranging their carefully constructed lives. Can two men who chose the road to avoid commitment find a way to choose each other?
Sometimes the longest route between two points is exactly the right way to go.
