Ballistics

It's summer, and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. Fleeing the fallout of a relationship gone sour, Alan West returns to the small town in the valley where he grew up. There, the grandfather who raised him, Cecil, suffers a serious heart attack. Sensing his life coming to an end, he gives his grandson one final task: Alan must track down the father he has never known so that Cecil can make his peace.

And so Alan begins his search for the elusive Jack West, a man who skipped town decades earlier and of whom Cecil has always refused to speak. The quest will lead him to Archer, an old American soldier who went AWOL into Canada at the height of the Vietnam War. Archer has been carrying a heavy burden for many years, and through him Alan learns the stories of Jack, of Cecil and of Archer's own daughter, Linnea: a woman inextricably bound to them all.

Together, at the behest of a dying man, they set off on a reckless journey through the burning mountains and, slowly, they unravel the knots of the past. What they find will change their lives forever.