After years spent chasing an elusive dream, a deep loss casts a harsh light on how far away Alex Woodard really is from ‘success.’ A beautiful, mysterious letter lands in his mailbox, inspiring Alex and a friend to write a song for the sender… the first step on an extraordinary journey of redemption and connection, featuring real-life letters brought to life in the music of Grammy-winning artists.
After a performance of these songs inspired by letters, Alex is handed a package that follows him from the congested confines of Southern California to the wide open, wild skies of Idaho.
The contents of the tattered yellow envelope lead to a series of letters from remarkable senders, pushing Alex to explore challenges he’s never had to face.
He settles in a log home at the base of rugged butte to write songs about those stories and learn to live more authentically, finding an unlikely teacher in a horse with a troubled past. Through his struggle to honor and bury the horse’s history in the daily soil of new beginnings, they both discover that true love may be found not in what we think or feel, but in what we do for each other.
Alex travels from his remote, rugged Idaho canyon to perform in Austin, Texas, where he’s given a weathered cardboard box with Love Letters from Vietnam etched on the lid. Inside, he finds a typed letter with an ominous first sentence.
Dear Sergeant Fuller,
You won’t know me for another two years, but I am your daughter.
These words, nestled amongst hand-written notes scrawled on aged Air Force stationary, are sent decades into the past, from a daughter searching for answers to a soldier serving in war-torn Vietnam. As Alex reads the remarkable correspondence and writes songs from the heart of the passionate, yet fatally flawed soldier, he embarks on a quest to learn more about the man, the wars he fought both in Vietnam and at home, and the daughter he left too soon.
Alex finds the young father’s tragic story mirrored in the natural, devastating seasonal cycle of the mountains…but also discovers beauty rising from the ashes, in this closing narrative of service and sacrifice, love and redemption, and the power of forgiveness.