In 1944, Loyal Blood secretly buries the body of a girlfriend he accidentally killed on a rocky hillside in Vermont and goes on the run... His entire subsequent life is meaningless and aimless wanderings around the American West for forty years, odd jobs, a panicky fear of falling in love, settle down...The only contact with family and past is postcards without a return address. Loyal sends them again and again, not even knowing how much everything has changed in his homeland and whether there is anyone else who can read these postcards...