
Ashes Are Burning the Way
After Lin’s funeral Carrie returns to an empty condo.
– everything is connected
Carrie’s friend, Nadine, tries to stop Carrie from traveling to South America with no plan to ever come back.
Carrie has traveled all the way to Lima in Peru but has not escaped her grief. She wonders how to find the strength to go on.
Meeting the perfect traveling companion is sometimes reason to leave as soon as you can.
Carrie meets Jacob from Israel who is slated to go to prison when he returns, for refusing military duty. It seems there is no way out. They try to find one anyway.
In a Bolivian market, Carrie helps a lost little boy search for his mother, with some unexpected consequences.
A story about the way we often say goodbye to past relationships.
Carrie is stranded at the Santa Cruz airport in Bolivia waiting for someone who may never come
Ending up in Buenos Aires, Carrie befriends a Falklands War-veteran who turns out to have a dark side.
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