Brook Silva-Braga, a successful video editor in New York has an early life crisis and decides to trade in his job for a year hostelling around the world. While doing so he films himself and interviews those he meets and on return, edits the footage into this film. Which is really more a TV video diary than movie per se.
The film will likely hold interest to those who have tried back packing or are considering it. Its content focuses on the relationships formed in these environments and the sense of freedom engendered by doing just what you please with no thought for others.
What it isn't is a travelogue. The locations he visits are barely touched upon. This is a deliberate choice to focus on his point that these trips are about the people met more than the places gone but will frustrate those looking for better views and more insight on the locales he chooses to stop.
I did enjoy revisiting the back packing experience but be warned, it left me very dissatisfied I would be doing no travel of my own anytime soon. Interesting but not essential.
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