In the company of a young metisse nicknamed the Great Locust, a writer goes to search for his brother Theo, which he has not heard from for several years. Initiated in Gaspe, Quebec, his journey will take him to San Francisco, not without a detour on the side of the deepest America, by the road of the pioneers .. Volkswagen Blues is a road novel where we cross the ghosts of some tramps If America is built in violence, Hack and the Great Grasshopper recuse this inheritance and aspire to peace.It is also a romance of love that moves and felt, restrained or dominated - as in the conquest of the West - the thirst for freedom.