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Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

Blair Hayes · 2001 · road

Blair Hayes's 2001 cult comedy. Jimmy, a boy raised inside a sterile plastic bubble because he has no immune system, builds himself a portable bubble suit and travels clear across America - through cults, carnivals, and bikers - to reach Niagara Falls and stop the love of his life from marrying the wrong man.

  1. 1
    Palmdale, California

    Jimmy, born without immunity and raised in a sealed bubble, builds a portable bubble suit and sets off to stop the girl he loves from marrying another.

  2. 2
    Las Vegas

    Out in the forbidden world for the first time, he falls in with a cult, a biker, and a travelling sideshow on the long road east.

  3. 3
    The Heartland

    Across the whole width of America he chases the wedding train, his flimsy plastic suit somehow surviving every disaster.

  4. 4
    Niagara Falls

    He reaches Niagara Falls just in time to crash the ceremony and win Chloe at the brink of the roaring water.

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Bubble Boy Map: Blair Hayes's Journey