The pasty grey, which surrounds Pavel`s caravan resembles the life inside of it: the 71-old russian spends the evening of his life between marram grasses and sleepy seaports. But at one point Pavel makes a decision: He picks up the telephone receiver, calls his old friend Jack and starts walking - just straight ahead to California. In that way, the film describes the late effort of an old man to give his life a turn and to find happiness in the distance.