Two Kansas college kids - photographer Steve Ewert and writer Dick Russell - had traveled across Europe looking for a place to belong and having adventures. They went to de Charles De Gaulle's funeral at Notre Dame, met famous artists, almost got arrested in Amsterdam and had two cars stolen. But their real adventure wouldn't begin until they hitchhiked 2,700 miles across the Sahara Desert.
Told in the actual voices of Ewert and Russell - and directed by Scott Petersen - this movie tells how they went from Algeria to Ghana, as well as all of the incredible moments in-between. Could they remain friends? Would they be able to get a story out of this? And how does one stay alive when their driver is a Dutch revolutionary given to crashing his van into sand dunes just for a laugh?
We are living in a time much like the upheaval the protagonists of this story lived through. Their experiences should serve to educate, inform and even entertain us.
Told in the actual voices of Ewert and Russell - and directed by Scott Petersen - this movie tells how they went from Algeria to Ghana, as well as all of the incredible moments in-between. Could they remain friends? Would they be able to get a story out of this? And how does one stay alive when their driver is a Dutch revolutionary given to crashing his van into sand dunes just for a laugh?
We are living in a time much like the upheaval the protagonists of this story lived through. Their experiences should serve to educate, inform and even entertain us.
