Beneath the Bears Ears

When a thirteen-year-old boy disappears into the remote red canyons of the traditional Navajo heartland, an old man riding an ancient horse goes in to find him, exposing both to things neither had expected to find.

Ceremonially bundled and left to die as an infant in the branches of a remote desert tree, now-thirteen-year-old, Navajo-born Henry Eisenberg, a champion cross country runner, has gone into the red-canyon wilderness of the canyonlands region of the American Southwest on a Vision Quest: seeking to discover his personal worth, or to die trying. His adoptive father, a 69-year-old German immigrant, riding a horse one-third that age, follows him into the remote canyons to find him and bring him home. But deep within the heart of Na'honidzó (Navajo: ‘The Escaping Place’), the unexpected confronts them both.