A birthday card cracks a man's life open like a geode—shiny secrets, sharp edges, buried grief.
A happily married father of two, shaken by a message written in a birthday card for his daughter, abruptly leaves his family for a week-long hike through the Grand Canyon. Following his solo trek, we see his memories of an earlier trip through the Grand Canyon with a different woman.
Cinematography
Grand Canyon as character—vast, indifferent, gorgeous.
Acting
Meyer's silence speaks paragraphs.
Direction
Cran trusts you to connect the dots.
Director
Kenneth Cran
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cran filmed the canyon sequences in chronological hiking order, so Meyer's physical exhaustion is real.
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