After losing his wife and daughter in a terrible accident, Preston Avery finds himself suddenly trapped in grief and isolated in a now empty house with nothing but the ghosts of his previous life to haunt him.
As the days bleed together and the walls of the house slowly close in around him, all hope seems to be lost until a motorcycle mysteriously appears one morning on his doorstep, but will he be able to leave the past behind?
Unable to exist in his present state a minute longer, Preston eventually turns to the motorcycle in a final act of desperation and sets out on his own to wander the highways and bi-ways of the backcountry as he makes his way across California.
Along the road, Preston eventually meets a young woman named Tracey, who is finally able to intuitively break through his fog of grief just long enough to throw him a lifeline back into the land of the living.
Although Preston's journey is at times very dark, "A Thousand Miles Behind" is ultimately a beautiful and poignant story of hope, that even when life hits at its absolute hardest there is always a way through if you can just hang in there long enough to find your way back to the light.