Based on a True Story by Elaine Jarvik
One afternoon, on her lunch hour, Megan Nickels impulsively rents a vehicle in Salt Lake, doesn’t read the manual, and ends up crashing on the P-F Highway — into the tow truck driven by her husband. An argument ensues, Megan impulsively flags down a taxi and flees — and ends up a long, long way from home.
Now she’s alone and broke. She eventually ends up at the Time Refugee Shelter, where she...
One afternoon, on her lunch hour, Megan Nickels impulsively rents a vehicle in Salt Lake, doesn’t read the manual, and ends up crashing on the P-F Highway — into the tow truck driven by her husband. An argument ensues, Megan impulsively flags down a taxi and flees — and ends up a long, long way from home.
Now she’s alone and broke. She eventually ends up at the Time Refugee Shelter, where she must face the fact that her husband’s life has gone on without her. At the shelter she is befriended by Chuck, whose story turns out to be even more complicated and troubling than her own. “Based on a True Story” is a tale about comfort and doubt, and the power and perils of narrative.