The Englishman - Paul West is in deep financial merde and has taken on a decidedly dodgy job touring America in a Mini. The Frenchwoman - Alexa, his très Parisienne girlfriend, claims to despise everything American, but ends up getting a little too friendly with the locals for Paul`s liking. The American - Jake is a poet whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul`s Mini. As the little car battles from New York to Miami and then heads west, leg room turns out to be the least of Paul`s troubles. His work is being sabotaged; his love-life has become a Franco-American war zone; and as Paul knows better than anyone, when you mix love and war - merde happens ...