On the run from Beverly, Johnny pulls into a lot he mistakes in the dark for a trailer park. In the morning it turns out the trailers parked there are with a travelling circus, Bosco's Big Top. As he's about to leave, Bosco's chimp, Kimo, pretends to get hit by the 'bago, and Bosco claims the chimp has whiplash, and will need therapy. He insists Johnny stay to work off the debt, which Johnny does to avoid the police who are looking for him. While working there, Marilee, the fat lady, gets a crush on Johnny, and befriends him. Eventually Johnny learns that everyone there is Bosco's prisoner, because he has dirt on all of them. Then he finds out Johnny's wanted for murder, and forces him to stay on at the circus. He chains Johnny and Kimo together, and gives the keys to the 'bago to the chimp for safekeeping. Everyone decides to run away and take Johnny with them, but Bosco overhears their plans and calls Beverly, telling her to come to the show that night. He also plans to take care of

Johnny Tenuti is released from prison and finds out his ex-wife Beverly is now his parole officer. As if that weren't bad enough, his cousin Vincent, who set him up five years ago, sets him up again. This time it's for the murder of Chico Roselli, son of mob boss Benito Roselli. Johnny goes on the run, and meanwhile Vincent becomes Don Roselli's new right-hand man. Vincent sends a hit man named Tommy after Johnny, but he escapes and sneaks onto a Winnebago driven by Hick, who's headed for Thataway RV Park, for an annual fishing contest. The prize for the biggest fish is $5000. There Johnny meets Mary, whose mother Blossom needs the money for a hip replacement operation. Tommy shows up to kill Johnny, but is stopped by Beverly, who wants to bring Johnny in for the murder. Johnny catches the prize fish, but leaves the check with Mary, since he has to leave in a hurry. Hick died while fishing, so Johnny takes the keys to the Winnebago and takes off. Johnny had told Hick earlier that his n

The 'bago runs out of water (as does Johnny himself) at a rhubarb plantation. Johnny gets some water from a pump, and then foreman Kenny tells him since the land is irrigated, and they have to pay to get the water in, Johnny will have to pay to get the water out. Since he's short on cash, he's forced to work off the debt cutting rhubarb alongside the migrant workers. He talks with one worker, Gloria, about the strike they're planning, since the owner promised to build them a church two years ago. He offers his own kind of help, but she declines. Then, however, an image of the Madonna appears on the 'bago's windshield, and the workers take it as a sign from God. Johnny isn't too pleased about that, until the workers start making monetary donations in the hopes of receiving miraculous answers to their prayers. Reno, the much younger gold digger wife of plantation owner Hub, wants to get out of the farming business. She's been waiting for Hub to die since his stroke two years ago, which l

Johnny arrives at Mystery Trees RV Park & Campground, where an ""eco warrior"" named Erica is looking to hire someone to find and photograph spotted owls. Johnny's looking for work, so he takes the job, and fakes the pictures. The pictures make Erica happy, but not her boyfriend David, who just wants to go back to New York. Also not happy are the local loggers, who will be out of work, since Johnny's pictures will secure an injunction for the eco warriors against logging in the owls' habitat. The loggers are about to take their anger out on Johnny, when Elvis shows up and saves him.

Johnny and Elvis go back to Elvis's RV, and they get to talking. Turns out Elvis had met Hick some time ago, and he had given him the same advice as Johnny, to traipse the bergs and the byways. Also Elvis told Johnny he'd decided to disappear because he'd lost ""it,"" so Johnny tries to help him get ""it"" back. When Elvis falls asleep, Johnny calls his mother to tell her who he's with, and she wants him to take