Joey Shannon is a 40-something alcoholic on the road to nowhere and haunted by his abandoned dream of being a writer. His failure is painfully underscored by the success of P.J., his charismatic brother, who earns international fame as the Kerouac of the nineties. P.J. grew into the man Joey always wanted to be. If only Joey could relive the past, go back in time, choose a different highway. When his father dies. Joey unexpectedly gets the second chance. An other-worldly beauty guides him into the past he so regrets, handing him a blessed opportunity to rebuild his life. Joey plunges into the murky depths of a secret pact made long ago between bothers, a journey that drives him into a battle between good and evil, faith and cynicism and, finally, toward the relevation of the darkest betrayal a man can know.