The Ride
In June 1979, two brothers drive an electrical contractor’s work truck up to the Mojave Desert from Huntington Beach, California.
They could not be more different. Professor Tomar Hinton is an “up and coming” philosopher now teaching at an exclusive private university in North Carolina. His younger brother, James, is an electrical contractor leading a crew which is constructing huge windmills on the crest of the desert’s mountains. Tomar has returned to his parents’ home to facilitate the funeral arrangements for their father.
James offers his older brother use of the contractor’s work truck, but still needs a ride up to the work site.
The trip up to the desert worksite will take three and a half hours and begins at an “ungodly” hour in the middle of the night. There is no radio in the old truck, and the brothers are forced, as a result, to talk with each other.
An intimate, yet powerful story, of communicating across vast differences.