British writer Richard Grant sets out across the American West to find the country's itinerant subcultures, the people who never settled down. He rides along with rodeo cowboys chasing the circuit from one dusty arena to the next, sits with hoboes riding freight trains, and talks to retirees who sold their houses to live full time in RVs, following good weather and cheap campgrounds instead of a fixed address. Grant treats his own presence as part of the story, showing up as an outsider asking why these people keep moving when the culture around them prizes homes, mortgages, and roots. Interviews happen in truck cabs, trailer parks, and roadside diners, with long stretches of highway and open plains standing in for the freedom his subjects describe. The film traces this restlessness back through American history, from westward wagon trains to Dust Bowl migrants, arguing that the drifters he meets are a continuation of something the country has always had running underneath its settled surface.