Because climate shifts quickly with elevation, such variation is most often found in mountainous sites, he noted, adding that a few dozen meters of elevation shift can offer a change of climate equivalent to several hundred miles of
flatland travel.
After Del's ancient truck breaks down, cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck («A War») keeps us close to the sagebrush and
flatlands of Eastern Oregon as the boy and his horse (to whom he confides his innermost thoughts)
travel together on foot, coming into contact with both the hard working underclass of American society and the dregs who prey on the innocent and trusting.