Tyler Johnson is an apocalyptic entrepreneur in the making. His memories begin with Ronald Reagan. Wit his neat girlfriend, smart jokes and shampoo collection, he works at the nuclear power pant where his hippie parents use dot demonstrate, plotting his fortune.
But fortune has other plans - the return of a Paris summer fling, one of the "low-ambition Euro-teens", who takes Tyler on the road to the shimmering dreams of LA.
This series of seemingly uncontrollable events snowball, forcing Tyler to re-assess some of his assumptions about life, the universe and everything . . .