A tale of adventure in the latter days of hippie America this is the story of Oval Rubber a spiritual seeker who sets out to preach for a living and decides to take Golly an obscure prophet from the time of Jesus as his inspiration. Adopting Golly's twin commandments making Surprise and Doubt a way of life he and his new wife Ethyl head off into the heart of America in a 1963 VW bus on a road trip rivaling that of the Merry Pranksters for counter-cultural zaniness and freewheeling adventures.