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A French family in Montreal decides to backpack around the world. Both parents see the journey as opportunities to change things in their lives.
A family on their first leg of a backpack journey around the world reflects on their stay in Mexico. Husband and wife draw closer together.
On a journey with his family, Mr. Beaudry feels ambivalent about his leisure time because he reflects on the pressure to earn a living for his family. He struggles with his identity as a man and provider.
After losing $400 in Mexico, Mr. Beaudry takes it hard. He cares less about money, however, than he does about knowledge. The family visits ruins and a museum, yet the father continues to question his role as a man and the value of work.
In Guatemala, people who work seven days a week do not experience the stress of work in the industrialized world. Is passion the key to their peacefulness and satisfaction? Though the daily grind was "killing" Mr. Beaudry, he still defines himself by his work.
Many men believe in the code of masculinity which says they must be able to stand alone, make money on their own, be a provider, and never ask for help. The code is a recipe for depression, but most men won't share the pain with anyone.
In Honduras, the middle-class Canadian family witnesses "shocking" poverty and family dysfunction. In the Kingdom of Tonga, the wife does not suspect her husband's depression and he does not share his feelings with her.
In New Zealand, Mr. Beaudry buys a van that breaks down as the family hits the road for a month of camping. After journey's end and her husband's suicide, Mrs. Beaudry seeks to understand what drove him to kill himself.
Upon return from a camping trip around the world, Mr. Beaudry has difficulty adjusting to work expectations placed on him. In front of his friend, he breaks down and expresses concern about his family's financial security and his shame about his condition.
Years after the family returns from a trip around the world, the children reflect on the father that they knew. They discuss the effect his suicide had and still has on them. Grieving is the process of healing the psyche.
A mother worries about the long-term effects of her husband's suicide on her children, who are now at greater risk of committing suicide.
Years after their backpack journey around the world, the children of Mr. Beaudry share their grief over his suicide. Each has his or her unique way of handling their loss.
For the family who is traveling around the world during a year of camping, the extraordinary has become ordinary. Moving on to another country has no thrill for them.
In Vietnam, a family traveling around the world learns that when the family faces challenges they pull together and have less dissension. After the family returned home, the father committed suicide. This was an enormous shock for the family.
A mother must tell her children that their father is dead. She helps them see that his suicide death was between only the father and himself. The wife and children do not see themselves as victims and bear no shame for their father's suicide.
In Vietnam, the Beaudry family is treated like royalty. A wife reflects on her life with her husband and recalls his best qualities.
A son reflects on his father's life before he committed suicide. His father, he remembers, was always full of new ideas and projects. The children reflect on what their father taught them during his life.
In dealing with and healing from her husband's suicide, a wife understands that his suicide does not summarize his life.
In India, a traveling Canadian family participates in a religious festival. They watch the fishermen build small, flat boats from which the men will fish 8 hours per day. They visit a peasant family in their home and experience their hospitality.
As a family travels around the world, they realize how detached they are from friends and family back home. Traveling is a luxury for them, and they see their friends caught in a rat race back in civilization. The family stays in an ashram.
In a loving relationship, love is a reservoir that can carry people through hard times. After her husband's suicide, a wife understands the importance of their loving relationship in helping her deal with grief.
In this video montage of the Beaudry family, viewers observe them during many different times of their lives when Mr. Beaudry was alive and with them. Mr. Beaudry's reasons for suicide will forever remain a mystery to the family.
Before they return home, the Beaudry family reviews their year-long journey. Mr. Beaudry, who will later commit suicide, concludes that one must enjoy life, the journey of life, because no one is actually going anywhere anyway.
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