"Travel documentaries can often feel like self vindicating aggrandizing puff pieces. However, this is nothing like that.
We see the narrator quitting his job to travel for a year over nothing more than a yearn to do so. This simplistic need to travel is a theme seeped throughout the entirety of this film that, rather than spending time gloating over places seen, focuses on the people met on the way. It's an extremely intriguing look into the lives of those that travel, and more so, why do they travel?
There is an intimate blend of relationships that grow over a minuscule amount of time, the sharing of a night with a fellow backpacker you will never see again, relationships that bloom only to be struck short a week later.
It's gripping stuff, mainly because it feels human. This story shows the world, but in doing so focuses how, no matter where we're from, we all react and take solace in the company of others"
- 8/10
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