The Latin American and Spanish Film Festival kicks off in Whanganui on Thursday night with Facundo Marguery's award-winning documentary from Uruguay, At 60km/hr.
You're divorced, 50 years old, feeling those aches and pains, and your adult children no longer need you.
There's nothing much else to do but tinker away in the backyard on your broken-down old Citroen Méhari, brooding on the dream you shared with your sons 20 years ago of driving around the world.
Or, in this case, crawling around the world, since the lightweight 600cc, two-cylinder, 28hp Méhari has a top speed of only 60km/hr.
But something happens in that backyard when Mario Sabah asks himself "Why not"?