After a failed attempt at pursuing the arts in the city, Clea (fun, reckless with a tendency to blow things up), finds herself in Arkansas working at a bar to pay the bills. Knee deep in an affair she did not know she was in, she finds herself pregnant with no father figure and no family support. Reeling, Clea is caught off guard by a call from her estranged younger sister, Frannie. Their parents are moving, and Frannie wants Clea to come with her to retrieve their childhood belongings.
Focused on her crisis, Clea goes to a clinic to confirm if she is really pregnant, but loses her nerve after a terrifying encounter with a teen mom. Seeking support, she finds herself at an Al-Anon meeting where she reunites with an old, seemingly sweet but incredibly strange friend, Abel. Abel, carrying his dead (cremated) dad in a box with designs to blast him off to outer space, seeks closure and is relieved to see a friend face in Clea. After Abel and Clea reunite, Abel persuades Clea to take the road trip with her sister, him in tow. In between drunken bar fights, propulsive vomit, and Abel's constantly changing definition of "sobriety," the road trip uncovers years of hurt and resentment, brining to the surface the imprints that their childhoods and parents left on these three individuals. Will they be able to hold themselves accountable, or will they get stuck in a narrative of their own making, doomed to repeat the same mistakes their parents made?