As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium catching up with the beat night-life in New York burying himself in the snow capped mountains of north-west America meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré Couer - Kerouac reveals the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfillment.