Karama Cowboy

A first-person narrator travels straight across the USA from Detroit to Las Vegas in search of his childhood friend Jerry Davis. He meets Jerry’s supposed acquaintances, relatives and loved ones, who talk about their friend. This figure, like the first-person storyteller and his search, is an invention, one through which the directors interweave the lives of real people into a fictitious story. With an eye for detail, Sonja HEISS and Vanessa Van HOUTEN observe this authentic everyday life yet their road movie ultimately bears all the hallmarks of the documentary film. The two directors skillfully allow reality to become fiction - and fiction to become reality.