As high school ends, five Oregon teenagers embark on one last adventure together. Hopping into a van with a broken taillight, their mission takes them to a place they've never been: the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Through the wilderness of the desert, the peripheral industrial areas and the streets of the city, they come into contact with people on the margins of society and discover that their lives will be determined by the paths they themselves will trace. They are forgotten kids from a forgotten town, but they have their freedom and they have each other, hurtling towards an unknown future - and towards The Party at the End of the World.