Omaha is a small, delicate film marked by few momentous narrative incidents. Yet Cole Webley’s directorial debut has something lacking from so many higher-profile and bigger-budgeted efforts, including its compatriots at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: an authentic feel for the texture,

“Omaha” follows a recently widowed father (John Magaro), who takes his two children (Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis) on a road trip from Hawthorne, Nevada, to Omaha, Nebraska, in a last-ditch effort to rebuild their lives. Utah’s varied terrain served as the perfect backdrop for the family’s multistate trip across the I-80 East.