Pretty Much True

When Jake deploys in 2003 to fly Apache helicopters in Iraq Mia a former adjunct English professor and Jakes fiance passes the time working as a cab driver with an ear constantly on the news for updates from talking TV heads hungry for soldier tragedies (great for ratings!). Numbed by the fear that shell never see Jake alive again Mia does her best to limit her encounters with others affected by the war: her overbearing future mother in-law; an alcoholic charismatic Vietnam veteran who frequently requests Mia as his driver; a pragmatic but secretive longtime Army wife; and a soldier who found a way to stay home. Pretty Much True is the war story thats seldom told -- the loss and love in every hour of deployment and a painfully intimate portrait of lives spent waiting in the spaces between.