Directed by Maria Maggenti, starring Laurel Holloman and Nicole Parker.
In an age of digital hyper-connectivity, we are rarely truly alone, yet we are often lonely. We post our solo triumphs for thousands to see, yet few people truly know the "grit" it took to get there.
Why does an adventure feel more "true" when shared with a single other person? In a group, the energy is diffused. You are a committee. When you are alone, the experience is internal and perhaps even meditative, but it lacks an external witness.
They drove until the suburbs bled into farmland, and the farmland bled into dense, brooding woods.
They climbed onto the hood of the car. The air was cold and smelled of damp earth and pine. Above them, the clouds broke, revealing a sky bruised with stars, dense and bright, a kind of sky you couldn't see from the house with the white picket fence they had left behind.
"It’s a dirt road, Leo."