Going My Way
Going My Way is a romantic and humorous glimpse into the lives of four free spirits who experience love, hope and joy in the simple act of sharing a ride.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jocelyn Landry has spent her life trying to please others, while holding onto her dream of a perfect family. But she learns the hard way that she can’t control everything in her life when her fiance leaves her for a younger co-worker. Jocelyn decides to leave her life in Boston and head back to her home in Portland, Oregon. Feeling like a failure and wanting to avoid her “mother hen” older sister, she puts off her arrival home by renting a car to drive across the country. Sharing the ride with a hitchhiker bound for Portland was not in her plans.
Twenty-five-year-old Conor O’Neil, a free spirit and youngest of three brothers, grew up with Boston’s elilte. To outsiders, his family was the picture of perfection. To Conor, they were superficial elitists… all except his grandparents who came over from the old country with nothing but a dream and a willingness to work. An inheritance from his grandfather enabled Conor to pursue his dream of living a simple life and working to achieve success. Hitchhiking across the country to begin his life as a craft brewer in Portland was his idea of “living the dream.” When he began his journey, Jocelyn was not part of that dream.
Nursing home residents Bud and Poppy found love when they thought their journey was ending. Wanting to give Poppy one last view of her beloved Pacific Ocean, Bud — ever the romantic optimist — orchestrates an escape from the nursing home, and the couple sets out on foot to begin their journey west. Sharing a ride with Jocelyn and Conor gives their journey new meaning, and demonstrates for their young companions what love — and family — really means.
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