18-year-old Emmett Watson is being escorted home to Nebraska by the director of the juvenile correctional facility where Emmett has spent the last 15 months. He and his brother Billy are left orphans and the family farm is repossessed by the bank. Emmett decides to go to California to start a new life there, but when the prison warden leaves, the guy discovers in the trunk of friends from a working farm that they secretly came with him. They have another exciting plan for the future of the Watson brothers, and to implement it, they need to go to the other side of the country - to New York. Amor Toles' novel "The Lincoln Highway" immediately became a New York Times bestseller. This remarkable story won 1st place in the 2021 Editors' Best Book competition. It has already sold more than one million copies. The book is still in Amazon's Top 20 sales. About 200 thousand users gave the book the highest rating, and this figure only continues to grow.