White Plains

Flynn Hawkins is a graduate assistant at a prestigious university, on his way to greatness and wisdom. But, in the aftermath of 9/11, Flynn leaves his unhappy marriage and beloved children, resigns his teaching position and heads west, only to get lost in his guilt and in the mountains of Colorado. When he ends up stuck overnight in a snowdrift, during a blizzard on the Continental Divide, he realizes he needs to remake himself into the kind of man his children need him to be. With wit and insight, David Hicks turns a compassionate, but unblinking eye on what it means to be human, to be lost, while putting yourself back together again, to be cowardly, while being brave, to fail and fail again on the way to something that might be success.