Old American Barn Dance

How far are you willing to go to keep your childhood best friends? Not very far. What happens when the yearly trip this turns out very different from what's normal?

Two sisters and their friend help each other overcome hardship as they struggle to make their dreams come true.

Harvard, a brainy, pretentious Mexican-American returns to his family home in East Los Angeles for what was scheduled to be a brief pause in his education. His family is caring for Ayers, a compassionate emotionally lost Midwesterner. They become a romantic couple. As years progress both young men are faced with what might have been and all the goals they promised to one day achieve.

Johan's girlfriend, Annelie ,has dumped him one month before their wedding. His best friend, Markus, buys him an inter-rail ticket and sends him off alone on a journey full of challenges. Challenges both the natural once appearing from the nature of traveling but also certain challenges that Markus texts and forces him to do. The journey starts in Sweden and heads through Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and ends up in Lisbon, Portugal. Along the way his encounters with other lost souls helps him see things from another perspective and a possible new romance with the Russian girl, Nadia, shows him that life together with Annelie wasn't so great after all. Later on when Annelie has another sudden change of heart and starts looking for Johan he no longer knows what he wants; whether to return to her or just go with the flow and maybe try something together with Nadia.

Having a best friend is rather tricky. Ben Sarjono must do many things for friendship to emerge beautifully from its cocoon.