Two Ohio journalists, on their way back to work after lunch, impulsively stop for a college-aged hitchhiker. Without learning his name or why he is on the road, the pair commits to traveling 600 miles to deliver their mysterious charge to his parents' home in Canada. En route, they encounter two female groupies hoping to locate a punk band supposedly playing at a hotel down the road. After some hi jinks, the girls find their band. Finally reaching Toronto, the newsmen discharge their ungracious passenger. Six months later, in an anonymous letter to the editor, the reason for his silence emerges.