A young widower sidesteps grief, loss, and familial dysfunction when he steals his wife's ashes and sets off on an impulsive odyssey through America's heartland to find something he'd lost long before her death.
Acting
David Sullivan's barely-held-together desperation feels uncomfortably real.
Writing
Conversations with ashes that somehow aren't cringe. That's craft.
Direction
Newell lets scenes breathe without drowning in indie-film preciousness.
Director
Jack C. Newell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The jukebox Ted hauls was a real functional prop; crew had to keep repairing it mid-shoot in 100-degree Illinois heat.
Newell conceived this after his own father's death, specifically wanting to capture the absurd logistics of grief nobody shows—like arguing with funeral home paperwork.
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