Omaha (the movie):
Synopsis
An Omaha native returns from a trip to Nepal to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves who chase him across Nebraska.


Simon (Hughston Walkinshaw) brushes his teeth and contemplates his life.

Enter the world of Simon, a young Omahan driven to anxiety by the world of technology. His dysfunctional parents and siblings are slowly driving him crazy. So he goes to the farthest place on earth from Omaha: Nepal.

A year later, Simon returns a changed man. He's a practicing Buddhist, and seems to have learned to deal with the world around him. Unfortunately, his family has remained exactly the same. All they to do is sit around the living room, glued to a reality-based crime show called "FEDS."


Gina (Jill Anderson) prepares to give Simon the haircut of his life.

Upon his return, Simon reunites with his high school flame, GINA - an eccentric woman trapped in the cycle of community college classes. He also looks up his old friend LARS, who works the nightshift at a donut shop and recites poetry on streetcorrners.


The suspicious jewelry story owner (Donald Schwartz) tells Simon and Gina they have to go to Denver.

To calm himself, Simon chews on Buddhist prayer stones he got in Nepal. Gina thinks they might be emeralds. A jewelry store owner verifies their authenticity, but says they can only be correctly appraised by jewelers in Denver. Unbeknownst to our heroes, the Owner instructs his henchmen, JORGE and GUSTAVO - two down-on-their-luck Colombians - to steal the jewels.

Simon prefers not to sell the emeralds: it would be sacrilegious, he says. He looks for a job. Since it's Omaha, the only openings are in telemarketing. He tries it, but the pressure is too much for him.

Gina convinces him to at least go to Denver for an appraisal of the jewels. Sick of life back in Nebraska, Simon agrees, and the two of them start driving west - with the Colombians hot on their trail. At a reststop along the interstate, Jorge and Gustavo snatch the emeralds from out of Gina's car.


Gina's Tae Kwon Do comes in handy at Carhenge.

The chase is on, as Simon and Gina follow the thieves over the entire length of Nebraska. Finally, the Colombians run out of gas and flee on foot - right into Carhenge! Gina's taken Tae Kwon Do classes, and she and Simon succeed in beating up the Colombians.

By the end, Simon realizes the spiritual harmony of Carhenge and decides that Nebraska's not so bad after all: it really is the good life.