An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U. S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.

An enthusiastic professor decides to drive with his son from their home in California to a natural crater in Idaho in exactly the same time as Apollo XI gets from Earth to Moon, while his wife stays home struggling with her fear of the outside world.—François Lavallée <[email protected]>