Ten year old Jo spends her days along the Shenandoah River with her best friend Selma, fishing, scrapping for metal-surviving. But when her abusive junkie stepdad dies, Jo decides, Selma in tow, to dump the body, steal the car, and set off across the country in search of her real dad, a legendary folk singer in Los Angeles. 　　译文(2): 十岁的乔和她最好的朋友塞尔玛一起在谢南多亚河里钓鱼，捡金【资源囤-ZiYuanTun.Com】。但是当她吸毒成瘾的继父去世后，乔决定，带着塞尔玛，抛弃尸体，偷车，穿越整个国家去寻找她的亲生父亲，一个在洛杉矶的传奇民谣歌手。