Ripple: The Search for the Lost Treasure of Pooh

Ripple: The Search for the Lost Treasure of Pooh explores the darker side of the existential dilemma: What are the consequences of living a life without meaning, a life without passion? Raised beneath the towering Redwoods of Northern California, by a single-mother forever caught in the slipstream of the ’60s, Dakota dreams of becoming an artist and escaping the small town of Alder Cove where growing marijuana is the only game in town. With the ink still wet on his high school diploma, he attends a Grateful Dead concert in Sacramento—never to return, abandoning his dreams and aspirations for the profound sense of family he feels living life as a Deadhead. Ten years later after serving only five years of a 15-year sentence for selling LSD in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco, Dakota is unexpectedly released from prison; a move orchestrated by a shadowy figure determined to unearth a mysterious treasure buried somewhere in Golden Gate Park by Dakota’s cellmate whose untimely death and the subsequent discovery of a secret map draws Dakota into a high stakes scavenger hunt forcing him to come to terms with a past he’s reluctant to abandon and embrace an uncertain future inextricably linked to his childhood, where dusty sketch pads and unfinished paintings share the fate of glow-in-the-dark constellations, dismembered soccer trophies, and dog-eared copies of The Catcher in the Rye and On the Road. Seen through the lens of a young man’s journey of self-discovery, Ripple is a colorful tapestry of intricately woven metaphors backlit by the story of a corrupt DEA chief and a self-diluted icon of the ’60s whose struggle for possession of a lost treasure is the tragic consequence of living lives without meaning, lives unrecognizable by the children that once dreamed them, and a clear warning to all those sleepwalking through life in shoes that don’t fit.