Irving (Lisa Jacqueline Starrett) has decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail on her own, basically to clear her head. On her way she meets Ford (James Tang), a good natured young man, and since the two of them consider one another likeable enough, the decide to go a bit of the way together. Then though, Irving badly injures one of her legs when swimming. and while Ford fortunately enough is an professional rescue worker and can treat her injury, Irving can hardly walk let alone hike - and they are in the middle of the woods with no other hikers around due to it being off-season and their phones not working. They try to still make it on foot, but the more hopeless the situation gets the more everything Irving was trying to get away from is catching up with her, from her guilt regarding losing her daughter (Presley-Belle Foster) in a car crash to her husband's (James Chrosniak) abusive behaviour, and since there's nobody else around, Ford finds herself more and more at the receiving end of her temper tantrums, which slowly strains their companionship out of necessity to breaking point ...

Now sure, To Die Alone isn't a film that immediately grabs one, and actually what grabs one most during its first act is its wonderful outdoor locations that manage to look at the same time impressive and foreboding. But once the film digs beneath its adventure yarn surface, it really sucks one into its world and gives its characters depth, also thanks to very relatable performances of the two leads. And even if the film started out as a straight-forward story, it manages to surprise the audience more and more and certainly doesn't end how one would expect it. So in all, a pretty cool cinematic journey.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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