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Filmed over an expanse of 25 years, two brothers go on a 2 000-mile road trip to solve a family mystery. Shooting on nearly every camera format imaginable, Sam Harkness and his older half brother Reed employ their creative world of fiction filmmaking to dive headfirst into dealing with the issue at hand: Sam’s mom is missing. But are these fun-loving brothers actually ready for what lies ahead? The documentary uses a hybrid narrative approach, drawing from a vast archive of fictional films, home videos, intimate family interviews and vérité scenes from over the decades. The optimistic teenage Sam we get to know, with his heart set on finding his mom, grows into a man whose new hope is to break the cycle of generational trauma.