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A coming-of-age story about refusing to become who you're told to be
Graduation is supposed to be a beginning.
For Max and Freddie, it feels like an ending.
Ahead lies the corporate ladder, polite ambition, sensible shoes, and a quiet agreement to trade freedom for security. Before taking that first irreversible step, they buy a retired NHS ambulance named Audrey and point her east -- from Oxford to Beijing -- along the Silk Road.
What follows is not just a journey across continents, but a confrontation with the moment in life when childhood ends and the rules close in.
As two unprepared twenty-somethings fumble their way through breakdowns, border shakedowns, violent crashes, and a tense encounter with the Taliban, Audrey becomes more than transport. She is a vessel for delay, defiance, and the hope that meaning might exist outside the narrow script offered to young men of their age.
This is a story about running -- not from danger, but from inevitability. About the terror of choosing a life before you're ready, and the strange clarity that comes when everything familiar is stripped away.
Travels with Audrey is a raw, funny, and uneasy meditation on freedom, masculinity, and the quiet grief of growing up -- disguised as a road trip that was never supposed to work, in a vehicle that refuses to quit.
Sometimes the journey isn't about finding yourself.
It's about resisting the version of yourself the world expects you to become.
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