American War meets Into the Wild in Brian Hart's epic saga of one
man's struggle to survive a hostile world--tracing his path from a
self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the 90s to the near future as
he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American West to find
his missing family--perfect for fans of Edan Lepuki and Cormac McCarthy.
In the America of a near future, northern California and the Pacific
Northwest have become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent
separatist militias and marked by a lack of water and fuel. In a village
outside Reno, a middle-aged man visits an undertaker and gathers the
ashes of his dead wife to bring to Alaska. There, their children await
them--refugees from the destruction of the south. To reach his only
remaining family, the man must cross the treacherous, violent landscape
north by bike, his dog his only companion.
Thirty years earlier, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble
childhood, Roy is numbing himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex,
when he meets Karen. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into
her orbit until she decides to give up their nomadic lifestyle to put
down roots in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roy's fidelity
buckles under the commitment and after a boozy night in Reno he leaves
Karen for the road and skateboarding.
Flashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a man
who is lost even when he's found, Trouble No Man delivers a resonant
story of survival, violence, and family, set against the tumult of an
America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.
