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Miles to Go is about a man who knows he is nearing the end of his life and makes one final decision for himself: to go home.
Sylus is terminally ill and too weak to drive, so he rents a self-driving car and begins a thirty-two-hour trip back to Willow Creek, Missouri.
As the car carries him across highways, rest stops, charging stations, and roadside motels, his body begins to fail.
Tasks that were once automatic become difficult: standing, walking, getting in and out of the car, even plugging in a charger. The farther he travels, the more dependent he becomes on the machine carrying him forward.
The film is built from small, observational moments — wind through an open window, rain against his hand, an old carving in a picnic table, a cigarette shared with a stranger, children playing beneath motel lights, open country passing outside the glass.
As Sylus grows weaker, the world around him continues without pause. He watches it, absorbs it, and keeps moving toward home.
At its heart, Miles to Go is about mortality, memory, and the determination to reach the place that still matters when almost everything else has fallen away.
Hector and his son Carlos, gather each morning before dawn at a home improvement store parking lot where immigrant workers hope to find day labor.
When a ranch owner hires them for a five day job, Hector is relieved to finally have steady income for his family. But during the first day, Carlos watches his father struggle through the brutal labor, refusing help even as his body begins to fail him.
At the end of the day, the ranch owner quietly tells Carlos that Hector will not be asked back. Desperate to protect his father’s role as provider, Carlos secretly cuts a deal with the man -- they both work but he'll only have to pay his father.
As Hector proudly tells the family they now have several days of income, without his father's knowledge, Carlos begins unsuccessfully searching the city alone each night for additional work to replace the wages he gave up, slowly collapsing beneath exhaustion and pressure.
When Hector later discovers that the money from the family jar does not add up, he believes Carlos has stolen from them and confronts him in anger. Only after Carlos’s younger brother reveals the truth does Hector realize what his son has done to protect his dignity.