Pulsating with the rhythms of jazz, sex and drugs, On The Road tells the story of a young writer named Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his 16 year old girl, Marylou (Kristen Stewart). Together, Sal and Dean travel cross-country in a quest for the unknown, in search of themselves, and the pursuit of "it" - the pure essence of experience. Seeking unchartered terrain and the last American frontier, they transcend all boundaries social and geographical.