Where Dreams Go To Die

The documentary follows a runner. Gary Robbins is a Canadian ultrarunner. His aim is to finish the Barkley Marathons. That race is held in a forest in America. The distance runs past a hundred and sixty kilometres. The course is unmarked and found by map and compass. Runners have to collect pages from books along the way. The time limit is very tight. Over the years very few people have finished it. Robbins makes two attempts. Each of them ends in its own way. The film follows that process across two years. Preparation, injury and family life are part of the account. Gary Robbins and Lazarus Lake appear in the seventy five minute documentary, an American production Ethan Newberry finished in 2017.