The Ride is a story of complicity and compassion, exploring life in transition.Strangers embark on a passage from Boulder to New Orleans absorbed by inner hopes and fears. The dark mountain passes, wildly bleak deserts, and swamps that swallow time mirror their private destinies, until a homeless man gets on, takes a drug and goes berserk. Then their destinies are forced to converge. Their response to the crises causes a larger tragedy. Grappling with this, they bridge differences and find friendships that ripple a healing current into their futures.