The Road

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a dark, disturbing and compelling vision of a dystopian future. It follows the journey of a father and young son as they navigate a post-apocalyptic America covered in ash. An unspecified cataclysmic event has rendered the country a cold and overcast hell-scape.

Dangers, both environmental and human, lurk at every turn as the pair battles hunger, hopelessness, and despair. Wheeling a shopping cart containing their meager possessions and dwindling stores of food, they use a tattered map to make their way south in search of warmth on a ravaged, rainy planet. 

This terrifying, bleak reality serves as a menacing backdrop to the tender moments between father and son who explore their feelings of compassion, determination, resignation, and grief.