Desperate to leave their small-town existence, two teenage boys drive north. With little sense of a plan, Adam and Teddy are seeking escape. But they carry along with them all the upsets and resentments they have accrued in their unhappy lives to date. As the pair's journey progresses, the mood fluctuates as each boy sets out to prove himself. Before long tensions build, and their story rumbles, roars and squeals before culminating in an act of devastating - and all too familiar - violence. In taut and stylish prose The Passenger Seat examines how men learn masculinity. Rejecting easy answers, it keeps our eyes trained on the vanishing point where vulnerability edges into violence, alienation into aggression.