An ex-con and his misfit team search the underbelly of American life for a cache of embezzled loot.

Dick Kanipsia was recently paroled for car theft and had every intention of going straight. But his life takes a turn when his best friend Harry Moss is shot before his eyes and tells Dick to find Barry Fenaka, who knows the hiding place of a large amount of money that Harry stole. Realizing that he is now a marked man, Dick tries to keep a low profile, but this proves impossible after he picks up the free-spirited hitchhiker Kitty Kopetzky. Kitty turns out to be a drugged-out ditz who takes advantage of their meal at a diner to rob the place. Before long, Dick and Kitty join Barry and his wife on a road trip in their Airstream trailer and their lives become progressively more complicated as they try to find the money while a big, black van follows them.