When a family of three is reduced through tragedy to a family of two, the surviving sister and mother find their grief pulling them in conflicting directions. 

The sister retreats to her bed, blinds closed, phone off, to be left alone, to sleep for months, diagnosed with Clinical Depression.

Three floors up, the mother's despair is manic in nature and plagued with insomnia.  Insomnia produces visions addictive and comforting in nature, visions of a journey the family was planning before their loss, a journey that crossed etheric paths with a high altitude cycling expedition to the Andes Mountains.  Her vision becomes obsession, obsession that escalates into making a life altering uplifting film about the imagined expedition. 

The daughter is roused from her warm bed to continue the family journey, set a high altitude world record in the Andes on her mountain bike and star in her mother's uplifting film about not giving up.

A frenzy of activity ensues. Some call it MADNESS. Others call it MAGICAL THINKING. Call it what you WISH.  The grieving family of two morphs into a CYCLING TEAM, a FILM CREW and FORTY CORPORATE SPONSORS.

This unlikely menagerie depart for SOUTH AMERICA unaware of the woman's unresolved grief - tucked safe inside her backpack are her youngest daughter's ASHES.  

That they get to CHILE is the first MIRACLE, but not the last.

Everything that can go wrong does.

At 6,880 meters, OJOS del SALADO is the HIGHEST VOLCANO IN THE WORLD, SECOND highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. From SANTIAGO the route is north, but this group keep heading south. First to TALCA, then to VILCHES, then towards EL ENLADRILLADO - alleged landing site for UFO's.

This is NO Hollywood movie. There's NO money. And NO mountain guide.  Everyone challenges mom's authority, including the camp cook, who has bonded with the sound person from hell.

Daughter wants mother to let go (of her sister's ashes) on the first plateau, so she, daughter, can get on with her life.  Mother wants daughter to get on with her life, but not yet, not until they climb the BIG mountain. But the daughter has other plans. 

In fact everyone seems to have other plans, including part of the film crew.  The subjects in front of the camera keep mysteriously disappearing, the crew behind the camera winds up in front.  They all try to trick the woman into abandoning her high altitude, low budget transcendental film about the HUMAN SPIRIT for reasons she cannot grasp, yet. 

The woman refuses to can her uplifting film and gives the VILLAINS their due.

And then, the unexpected happens...