Dave is about to be 21 years old and he wants to know his father - the man who left his mother and moved to Los Angeles 12 years prior. Against his mother's wishes, Dave decides to drive the old family car 2,000 miles from Indiana to LA for an answer to a not so simple question: Why did you leave us? On the way he meets an aspiring singer with a troubled past and Dave learns that some questions just don't have an easy answer.