With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from inland Oregon embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission takes them to a place they’ve never been—the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “Fuck it.”
Direction
Ross brothers blur documentary and fiction until you forget which is which.
Cinematography
Dreary highways that somehow ache with beauty—Oregon as character.
Acting
Non-actors playing themselves; the awkwardness is the point.
Director
Bill Ross
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Ross brothers cast real Oregon teenagers with no acting experience, then built the narrative around their actual personalities and tensions.
The film's title references both the iridescent sheen of polluted water and the false promise of the American road narrative—beauty built on something toxic underneath.
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