When Englishman Zach Periton realises his life is going nowhere, he takes the time-honoured route out of the problem and plans a road trip. He'll fly to New York, and drive across America to California, where he'll work and surf, living one day and one wave at a time, and end up living with a porn queen.

But when Zach meets the enigmatic and beautiful and mysterious Mopsa Welch high over the Atlantic she tells Zach that his problem is ‘story over-exposure’. Nothing on his journey will be anything less than predictable. And when Zach agrees to follow Mopsa to California, his story takes a very surreal and unpredictable turn indeed. Bizarre parables, surfers, pole dancers, hippies, religious cults and the LAPD, all collide in a road novel unlike any other that teaches us that at the heart of our lives is a story, but it is not always one we can control.

When Englishman Zach Periton realises his life is going nowhere, he takes the time-honoured route out of the problem and plans a road trip. He'll fly to New York, and drive across America to California, where he'll work and surf, living one day and one wave at a time, and end up living with a porn queen.

But when Zach meets the enigmatic and beautiful and mysterious Mopsa Welch high over the Atlantic she tells Zach that his problem is ‘story over-exposure’. Nothing on his journey will be anything less than predictable. And when Zach agrees to follow Mopsa to California, his story takes a very surreal and unpredictable turn indeed. Bizarre parables, surfers, pole dancers, hippies, religious cults and the LAPD, all collide in a road novel unlike any other that teaches us that at the heart of our lives is a story, but it is not always one we can control.