Jenna has a holiday job in a shoe shop and finds that she can sell anybody anything. Unfortunately her personal problems are not so easy to sort out. When the company president, Madeline Gladstone, asks Jenna to drive her across the USA to a vital meeting, Jenna jumps at the chance to get away from her family and hit the road. Together the wise old woman and the sensible young woman teach eather other a lot about the rules of the road - and the rules of life.