Hesher je samotár žijúci v dodávke. Nenávidí svet a všetko okolo seba. Na druhej strane miluje oheň a rád vyhadzuje veci do vzduchu. Veci okolo neho sa dajú do pohybu, keď stretne T. J..

A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his masterpiece, and his mother Thelma, made it her life's mission.

Set in 1910 during the Mexican Revolution, it tells of an estranged father-son out to stop smugglers.