A blithe and redemptive seriocomic love story filled with country music,
the ghosts of Halloween, and an ironic brand of down-home religion.
Newly divorced and feeling the pain of separation from his family, Hud
Smith channels his regret into writing country-western songs,
contemplating life on the lam with his 8-year-old daughter, and
searching cryptic postcards for news of his teenage son who has run off
with The Daughters of God, an alternative Gospel-punk band of growing
fame. Then he finds himself inching toward reconciliation with his ex,
tossing his whole talent for misery into question as they head off in a
borrowed school bus, hoping so very tentatively to bring the entire
family together again.
In this endearing misadventure that threatens to turn out right in spite
of it all, Schaffert writes a thin line between tragedy and hilarity,
turning wry humor and a keen sense of the paradoxical onto characters
who deserve all the tender care he gives them.