Vancouver, 2001. Louis and Jane Fay have it all: money, connections and prestigious jobs. Until they meet Benjamin Rickler, a scientist with a revolutionary idea, and decide to set up a company with him. While the couple believe in the project, everything collapses when a first test takes the life of a young woman. The Fays, scandal-ridden and penniless, are forced to flee their lives. On the run, Jane makes a decision: to abandon Louis on the edge of the desert. Will their paths cross again? And at what cost?
From casino cities to the great deserts, from marginal communities to Armenian Power, Dominique Forma delivers a captivating tale of Barack Obama’s United States and the end of the American dream. A veritable road-novel, Bombay Beach California tells the story of a country fractured between the powerful and the misfits.
