Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that's fine with her. But, when Peter's father, Len, falls ill, he asks Diane to take care of their son for a while. Eventually, Diane reluctantly agrees, but she quickly realizes that caring for a child interferes with her independent lifestyle - and Peter isn't all that thrilled with the arrangement, either.
Genres: Drama
Keywords: abandoned-by-mother , absent-mother , americana , anger , baseball , california , cross-country , dancing , divorcee , driving-drunk , drunk , highway , hospital , married-man , military-veteran , motel , mother-son-estrangement , one-night-stand , resistance , reunion , sadness , sick-father , traffic , truck-driver , truck-stop , trucking , vfw-bar