Family adventure loosely based on the novel by Jack London. Christopher Lloyd stars as Bill Hale, a recently widowed man living in Montana who has his nine-year-old granddaughter Ryann (Ariel Gade) to stay for several weeks while her parents go abroad. When Ryann finds a wounded wild dog on the back porch one night, she names him 'Buck' and dreams of taking him back to the city as a pet. But her grandfather knows that the animal will eventually have to return to the wild, and to help her understand this he starts reading Jack London's 'Call of the Wild' aloud to her each night. However, Ryann has hatched a plan of her own, and enlists the help of a local boy to train Buck up as a sled dog champion.

Calvin Reeder directs this unconventional comedy horror starring Dermot Mulroney as an unnamed man who encounters various bizarre occurrences as he attempts to make his way to his brother's farm. The Rambler (Mulroney) has just been released from prison but is a long way from his destination and, with no means of transport other than his legs and whatever lifts he can beg, will see a lot of the less glamorous side of America on his travels. He meets figures such as the Scientist (James Cady) and The Girl (Lindsay Pulsipher) along the way and is drawn into increasingly unusual events. What does the road hold in store for him?