There is a Generation

A satire of the 1950s generation

In 1950s West Texas, best friends Tim and Hect, two mischief-makers in their middle teens, are enjoying the high life. Coddled in the type of lifestyles that allows them to play war with .22 caliber semiautomatic rifles, they suddenly find their world turned upside down when their game turns into a ghastly murder, or so they believe.

For a final hoot of the day, Hect has the idea to set ablaze an old shack in a forgotten auto junkyard. Tim readily agrees, though he thinks his friend's target is a wasp nest in a mesquite bush. They fill a bottle with fuel from a wrecked truck and hurl the Molotov cocktail at the shanty, which erupts into a fireball. Stunned that his friend chose to set fire to the empty office instead, Tim gapes in horror as a blazing figure appears in the hut's window.

The human torch and a shocked Tim gaze at one another, searing the memory into the boy's mind. Interrupted by the sound of sirens coming from town, and believing their prank will land them in prison, if not on Huntsville’s Death Row, Tim and Hect think their only choice lies in becoming fugitives from the law.

Armed only with dogged determination and a forehead-slapping sense of naivety, the two boys flee out into the harsh Texas desert. Because of the spoiled lifestyles they've lived so far, the two couldn't be less prepared to face hunger, thirst, life on the road, homelessness and a hidden world of poverty and slums, plus the mean streets of Juarez, Mexico.