

A 2,000-mile love letter to the ruins we built to end the world.
A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the summer of 1945—covering many other atomic destinations and driving deep into the natural and social history of the American southwest.
Writing
Caldwell-Gervais narrates like a ghost telling his own story.
Cinematography
Desert landscapes that swallow human ambition whole.
Direction
Patient, essayistic structure refusing easy answers.
Director
Noah Caldwell-Gervais
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Caldwell-Gervais shot this entirely solo, sleeping in his car, after a Patreon campaign funded the gas money.
The film belongs to a wave of 'atomic tourism' docs responding to renewed nuclear anxiety—but its refusal to editorialize makes it uniquely unsettling.
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