The Sakana Foundation

A Lebanese-American teenager gets expelled from school and is forced to drive cross-country with his neurotic mother. What begins as punishment becomes the longest, funniest, and most unexpectedly meaningful trip of his life.

In a vast public works project in West Africa, Horn, the construction site manager, and Cal, a young engineer, share lodging behind the fences that envolve all the compound. Leone, Horn’s recent bride, comes to join them the same night that a man appears at the fence. His name is Alboury. He is determined to stay there until they return the body of his brother to him, who was killed on the site.

After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.

Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.