David Strathairn delivers a quietly powerful performance supported by a magnificent ensemble cast in an impressive feature debut which its writer-director calls “a human tapestry.” Unable to continue in his career and his marriage following a tragedy for which he holds himself responsible., Finn, a middle-aged English teacher, searches for meaning through a purposeful walkabout in his small New Hampshire town, selling encyclopedias piled into a little red wagon which he pulls behind him. Finn’s unusual approach to walking meditation intertwines the threads of other searching lives into his own as he is forced, at last, to confront the absent thread of this tapestry, the ghost which has set him on his journey.

(With Ian Somerhalder, Daniel Gillies, Jane Adams, Ann Cusack, Elizabeth Waterson, Scott Wilson, 2006, 134 min.) – G.R.