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Alone

Lost and alone, a desperate young husband must find a way to either raise money for his dying wife, or survive himself.

Nick, a young husband struggling with his faith finds that his wife, Sarah, has only a month to live without a costly operation. Desperate for the money, he turns to an old life of crime. Mario, a crime boss, sends Nick on a job to steal and deliver a truck hauling cars and drugs with the promise that Sarah will receive her operation. On the job, Nick comes across a police barricade in the middle of Death Valley, in an attempt to finish his job, he takes an empty side road. Fifty miles down the road, Nick's truck blows a tire. Failure after failure to fix the tire and find a way out, Nick must grapple with his own pride to save his wife himself or give way to God and find what's truly important to him.

Who can direct this screenplay? Anyone