The Golden Bridge

By: Bill Bennett

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A man leaves home the morning of his wife's funeral. He wears a backpack. Instead of going to the funeral he walks up to the main street, throws his wallet, his phone, his watch, all his credit cards and ID into a dumpster. He wants to become invisible. His name is Harry, he's a structural engineer, he'd been married thirty-eight years. He loved his wife. And he killed her.

He hears about a mythical rock in the centre of the country - desert country - so he decides to head there, even though he's told the walk will kill him. And through his grief, his guilt, his exhaustion and the unrelenting heat, he begins to unravel. And he slips into a heightened state of awareness where everything and everyone are not what they seem.

A powerful and deeply emotional story about one man's journey into the heart of a country, The Golden Bridge is a remarkable allegory about love, death, and the very nature of reality.