Riding the Bullet

The dead travel fast

A dark, introspective journey through grief and mortality where a suicidal young man confronts death itself while hitchhiking to his dying mother's bedside.

In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has had a stroke and decides to hitchhike to visit her at the hospital.