five years thats how long coyote and her dad rodeo have lived on the road in an old school bus crisscrossing the nation its also how long ago coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash coyote hasnt been home in all that time but when she learns the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished the very same park where she her mom and her sisters buried a treasured memory box she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive 3600 miles back to washington state in four dayswithout him realizing it along the way theyll pick up a strange crew of misfit travelers lester has a lady love to meet salvador and his mom are looking to start over val needs a safe place to be herself and then theres gladys over the course of thousands of miles coyote will learn that going home can sometimes be the hardest journey of allbut that with friends by her side she just might be able to turn her once upon a time into a happily ever after