Barge

A towboat drifts down the Mississippi River due for the port of New Orleans The water the banks the bright lights of a port ahead the lure of a coming paycheck and a homecooked meal This is the world of BARGE A green deckhand following his father into the family business A former convict working his way upward job by job in the hopes of being First Mate A thirtyeight year veteran engineer in no hurry to retire An ancient waterway pulling a double shift as the backbone of a national economy a tangle of thick steel cables tied together just right As long as the boats moving theyre making money An intimate portrait of the machinery of American ambitions