Wildlife - Photographer of the Year

Összefoglaló

Joe Brinson is 16 and living in Great Falls, Montana. His family moved there, his father in search of something better, hoping to pre-empt a boom in the state. His father is a golf-pro at the local course but loses his job, sending him into a sort of funk. His mother is forced to go to work to keep their roof over their heads and after a while, Joe’s father Jerry announces that he’s going to go and fight a fire raging out of control somewhere nearby even though he has no experience and the fire is almost impossible to put out given the weather conditions at the current time.

Joe’s mother Jeanette has been teaching swimming at the local pool but the day after Joe’s father leaves for the fire, without her approval she brings home a man named Warren Miller and tells Joe that she is going to be working for him doing his accounts. Miller is older than his mother, walks with a limp and not that attractive. Joe is uneasy – his father has only been gone a day and his mother already has a strange man in the house and is acting very out of the ordinary. When they go to Miller’s house the next night for dinner, Joe is forced to confront the idea that something may be going on between his mother and Miller when she dances with him in the living room with Joe watching on.