Wreck and Order

A boldly candid, raw portrait of young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent worldDecisively aimless, dangerously self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels stuck. She has a tumultuous relationship with an abusive boyfriend, a dead-end job at a newspaper, and a sharp intelligence that is at odds with the bad decisions she's making. When her initial attempts to improve her life go awry, Elsie decides that a dramatic change is the only way to fix things: to somehow make more of herself, to find a new way to live. Fortunate enough to have a father who will financially support her capricious wandering, Elsie strikes out for adventure on her twenty-first birthday. She is an auto-didact who prefers the education of travel to college, and is hoping to accumulate experiences, create connections, and find a way out of the suffering she's grown up with. From a dingy bar in coastal California, to a cramped...