Seattle 1972 Neil Countryman and John William Barry two teenage boys fromvery different backgrounds are at the start of an 800m race. Their livescollide for the... » 

Seattle 1972 Neil Countryman and John William Barry two teenage boys fromvery different backgrounds are at the start of an 800m race. Their livescollide for the first time and so begins an extraordinary friendship. As they grow older Neil follows the conventional route of the Americandream but the eccentric fiercely intelligent John William makes radicallydifferent choices dropping out of college and moving deep into the woods. Convinced it is the only way to live without hypocrisy John William enlistsNeil to help him disappear completely drawing his oldest friend into a web ofsecrets and agonising responsibility deceit and tragedy 45 one that willfinally break open with an unexpected life45altering revelation. «