媽媽一夕之間不告而別？！導演與繼弟山姆為了尋找真相，展開一場橫跨3,000公里的公路旅行，貼身紀錄25年來家族面對創傷的傷痛與成長。
在解開媽媽消失之謎的過程，兄弟倆也不禁思考自己是否足夠了解家人。為何母親跟自己的社會角色產生衝突？而家庭的理想藍圖又是什麼呢？
What do two film-obsessed brothers do to solve a family mystery? Using every video format imaginable, they make a movie as they travel thousands of miles looking for their missing mom. Stitching together 25 years of home videos and filling the gaps in the archive with play, SAM NOW is a mosaic of love, longing and loss, as well as an attempt to overcome intergenerational trauma.
里德．哈克尼斯在自家後院和車庫中自學拍片。18 歲時，他開始拍攝以弟弟 Sam 為主角的短片系列，這成為了一個耗時二十年的專案——《關於我弟與他媽媽》，一部關於他弟弟從 11 歲到 36 歲成長過程的電影。《關於我弟與他媽媽》贏得了蘇黎世電影節紀錄片比賽的冠軍，並獲提名皮博迪獎。
里德 曾執導獲獎的紀錄片《FOREST ON FIRE》（2017 年），該片講述了一名少年如何在哥倫比亞河峽谷丟下點燃的煙火，導致超過 150 名遠足者受困，並且如同野火一樣，新聞事件迅速失控。
Reed Harkness attended ‘film school’ in his backyard and garage. At age 18, he began making a series of short films starring his younger brother Sam. This was the beginning of a project two decades in the making: SAM NOW, a coming-of-age film that follows his brother from age 11 to 36. SAM NOW won the documentary competition at the Zurich Film Festival and was nominated for a Peabody Award. Reed previously directed the award-winning 30-minute documentary FOREST ON FIRE about the 2017 wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge started by a teen who threw a lit firecracker off a hiking trail–stranding more than 150 hikers–and how, much like wildfire, a news story can spin out of control.
