Fern lived and worked in Empire, a company town of a gypsum manufacturer. The mine and the town were closed in 2011 and even the postcode was discontinued. Added to this, Fern’s husband dies. She has nothing more to lose and decides to live in a van, going from place to place to find a job. She meets on the road fellow nomads and learns basic survival skills. Her sister and another nomad, that has settled down, offer to give her a solid roof, but she refuses. The road has become her life. This film is something between a fiction and a documentary, not much happens in it, but it opened a few windows in my head to other ways of living, other destinies, between chosen and out of no choice.
“One of the things I love most about this life is that there’s no final goodbye. You know, I’ve met hundreds of people out here and I don’t ever say a final goodbye. I always just say, “I’ll see you down the road”. And I do. And whether it’s a month, or a year, or sometimes years, I see them again.”