Joseph was isolated from his brothers and treated differently, both by them and by his father. Jacob sent him off to see how they were doing, or maybe effectively to spy on them.
Verse 15 seems to indicate that Joseph didn't really know what he was doing or where he was going. A man helped him and pointed him in the right direction.
Joseph was not a welcome sight for his brothers, and their hatred had reached such a pitch that they wanted to kill him. Reuben was the first born and possibly felt responsible, so he tried to lessen their actions. So in the end they just beat him up and threw him in a hole. Then some traders came along and they saw an opportunity to make some money, so they sold him as a slave. They got twenty shekels for Jospeh.
Finally they soaked his cloak in goat's blood to deceive Jacob. It is ironic that Jacob is deceived in a similar way as he deceived his own father. Meanwhile Joseph was sold on as a slave in Egypt.
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