A disabled Marine veteran with PTSD, Hector manages a small checkpoint on the Pacific Crest Trail, where he encounters hikers and gives some of them a little more than pie and coffee. With some of the men, he shares his bed, and takes their stories in return: some sexy, some sad, some both. But he really longs to join the hike again himself, something he can no longer do without a leg. He misses the fresh, thin air of the mountains, the sweat of the summer sun, and the quick camaraderie of the trail. Then one particular hiker, Sean, stops at the checkpoint, and he awakens Hector to the awareness that he might be better, even stronger, than he ever suspected he could be. But not everyone on the trail is so friendly or so safe. Torn among his own self-doubt, the dangerous violence of some of the men who stop at the checkpoint, and his desire to once again feel the miles beneath his feet, Hector must find his lust for life again. And along with that lust, maybe a kind of love.
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