Thomas Francine spends years hitchhiking, racking up 26,000 miles across 34 U.S. states and 12 other countries, and the film follows him on the road while he talks to drivers, fellow hitchhikers, and the camera about what he finds. Despite hitchhiking's reputation as a dying and dangerous habit, Francine reports not a single threatening encounter across that entire mileage, and the film treats that record as its central piece of evidence rather than a talking point. A stop at the European Hitchgathering 2011 widens the frame, bringing in hitchhikers from other countries who compare notes on routes, close calls, and the strangers who picked them up. Their accounts pile up into an informal case study on trust between people who have no reason to trust each other beyond a shared stretch of highway. The film stays low-key and personal, sticking to Francine's own trips and the people he meets rather than statistics or experts, and it ends up asking a plain question: what actually happens when you put yourself at the mercy of strangers, repeatedly, for years?