H.N. Shantha Murthy

As a boy he ran away from his impoverished village in India to escape poverty and spent years traveling in search of work before a chance encounter with a visiting couple from Houston Texas led to his immigration to the US His American life didnt follow the dream hed imagined he worked at various points as an engineer at Boeing a childrensclothing and medicalsupply salesman a Dennys manager a struggling giftshop owner and a nightshift gas station attendant in Texas the job that gives the film its title though it was only one chapter of a longer restless working life