A Benefit for WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION
7:00 PM THURSDAY, JUNE 08 – EMERSON CRAWFORD THEATER
A Marine wounded in Afghanistan is sent to a V.A. facility in Montana where he meets a Vietnam Vet who teaches him how to fly fish as a way of dealing with his emotional and physical trauma.
Mending the Line is a story about finding something to make living worthwhile. John Colter, a wounded veteran, returns to the States still carrying the demons of war, hauntingly disturbed by the everyday expectations of friendships and love interests. In Livingston, Montana, he meets Ike, a surly, headstrong fly-fisherman more than twice his age, and Lucy, a talented photographer turned librarian who reads aloud to veterans, both damaged in their own way. While getting treatment for his wounds, both physical and psychological, Colter wants only to re-enlist, to have something to die for. But the real challenge is finding something to live for.
Star-Studded Film Highlights Healing Value of Fly Fishing
Steve Camelio started writing Mending the Line when he lived in Yellowstone National Park and worked at the bookstore at the Norris Geyser Baisin.