On the Road

Based on Jack Kerouac's landmark novel, Walter Sales' film profiles the Beat Generation through its poetry, sex and drugs and this enchanting uncertainty about the future, set against the backdrop of endless American highways.

Synopsis

In the late 1940s, young writer Sal meets Dean Moriarty, an ex-con from Denver, and his underage wife. The three of them, along with their quirky friends, will embark on a hellish journey of self-discovery from one end of America to the other with the help of drugs, disenchanted carnal pleasures and electrifying jazz tunes.