The heroes of Dennis Johnson belong to the lost. The author presents them naked, with their only clothing being their humanity. And that is exactly their power. How it makes us see them. Perhaps, better than we would like. And we forgive them.
Jamie leaves her husband and goes away with her two children. On the road, she meets Bill Houston, a former sailor, a former convict. Their already broken lives take to the streets, passing through madness and murder, to end in a painful disillusionment of the American dream.