The road is a world of its own. Darkness finds a young man on the rural highways of the South in wee hours of the night. Clandestine activities, underground operations, criminal undertakings, and the strange, sinister desires of those who call the road "home."

A young American man finds himself in the dark and bizarre underground world of Japanese culture. Subjected to terrors so strange and sinister -- and yet so sublimely ancient -- that they defy every norm of the Western world. Yet, through the hell to which he is subjected, he begins to understand that which most cannot.