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Victor a Coeur d'Alene Indian who lives on the reservation in Idaho, receives the horrible news that his father, Arnold, has died in Phoenix. His nerdy friend Thomas Builds-the-Fire offers him the money for the trip from Idaho on the condition that he let Thomas go along with him. Victor doesn't like Thomas all that much, but he needs the money, so he reluctantly accepts as long as he doesnt wear the stupid suit. Arnold once saved the infant Thomas's life, and Thomas now idolizes him as a brave, colorful, bigger-than-life character. Victor, on the other hand, remembers him as an abusive, unpredictable drunk who abandoned his family.The movie smoke signals takes the two young men through thier soul flights to become one with the earth and come to peace with the world. Thomas gets to see his idole and victor gets to gosee his father off. In the movie when they reach the trailer that his father lived in victor was afraid to go inside but he does reluctantly. Inside the trailer he cuts his hair to mourn his fathers death.
On his way home he comes across a drunk driver in an accident and he left to get help and he ran nearly twenty miles and in his running he passed out and came to peace with his father
in his exhausted state . This is his soul flight which is