After the funeral, he embarks on a spur-of-the-moment road trip with a young woman he just met, played by Kirsten Dunst.

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For a moment, I thought of the boy on the road and wondered if it would ever come to this for him, if he would ever come home and find someone he cared for, but no longer loved, asleep in an armchair.

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