Central Africa, late last year. A young, burned-out American Agent falls for a damaged ex-Peace Corps worker that doesn’t want to be found.
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Synopsis
Central Africa, late last year. The end of a small, but brutal
civil-war. When his cargo plane is damaged, Avery, a young
burned-out American Agent, must ride-out the rest of the war at
a remote jungle airstrip just across the border.
His tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and a half-dozen other wars
have taken their toll, Avery is done. He just doesn’t know it
yet. But when he stumbles upon Mary, another young American,
he’s surprised and intrigued. He tries to befriend her in the
short time that he has there but each time she rebukes him,
retreating to safety of her small, secluded hut, which is
surrounded by a massive thorny hedge of bitter almond bushes.
Mary is damaged too. She has a painful past she won’t confront
and her hedge is a living metaphor for keeping people out. But
eventually he wins her over, and even though they come from two
totally different worlds, (Politically and Socially), they
slowly begin to fall for each other.
But when the bloody civil-war takes a turn north, Avery must
convince Mary to leave with him. Now she must come to terms
with an ugly part of her past, and leave the only place she’s
ever really felt at home. In the end, in the mud and the jungle,
they both learn two valuable lessons: That it’s never too late
to love again, and it’s never too late to go home.