When a pragmatist, fatefully picks up a teenage girl hitchhiking in the middle of the night, she soon learns that even on this lonely road, neither of them was ever alone.
Writer’s Vision for ‘The Ride’
I’ve always wanted to write a piece about grief – it’s one of the strangest things I’ve had to deal with. I’m not sure if I’ve ever written anything that is so purely from my perspective as The Ride.
Both characters, Catherine and Jess, while years apart, are both me, told from different times of my life and different stages of my grief. After three years of battling cancer, my mother was admitted to a hospice and two weeks later, she passed away. This was just months after I graduated college. When I think back to the weeks before she died, I see a girl that didn’t have the capacity to grasp reality: my mother was dying, and I was lost. During that time a woman I worked with, who hardly knew me, took a big step into my life. She showed me that motherly love can come from the people we least expect.
My hope is that this film can be a form of comfort to anyone who’s experienced loss. The Ride is an exploration of loss, uncertainty, mother/sisterhood, hope, and the long road ahead.