Hope

Hope is the name of the town in which Sara arrives, and expects Amy to pick her up. Amy doesn’t show up and after over two hours of waiting, a woman approaches her and asks if she needs help. When she learns that Sara is waiting for Amy to pick her up, she enlists the aid of a regular in the diner named Hank to take her there instead. Hope is a satellite community that survives because as a commuter town for the busier town of Cedar Rapids.

Broken Wheel

Broken Wheel is a small town in Iowa that is slowly sliding into obscurity. With a population of just 637 people, the town is unable to sustain much of an economy alone, dependent on farming and service industries in order to survive. The town cinema has long since been closed and has been used as a meeting place...