An androgynous twelve-year-old boy who idolizes his mother Sarah--known to be a 'lot lizard', or truck-stop whore--adopts her name, and pretends to be a girl. He soon stumbles into dangerous and fantastic worlds pocketed away in the West Virginian wilds. He hitches a ride to the famous luck-restoring Jackalope, is mistaken for a saint and must prove himself by walking on water. When he is captured by the malevolent Le Loup, his life is put in jeopardy until his cries for help are finally heard.