Three-time Emmy winner Margo Martindale stars as CJ Montague, a veteran truck driver in her seventies and one of the last independent owner-operators in a rapidly disappearing, male-dominated industry. Having spent a lifetime on the road, CJ has built a life defined by motion, solitude, and distance, rarely staying anywhere long enough to be known.

This is how she has always lived, alone, moving from route to route, rarely staying anywhere for long and often sleeping in her truck. Her only steady connection is Buck, a fellow trucker she’s never met in person, whose voice over the radio has become a constant companion across the miles. But the world around her is shifting, bringing her into uneasy contact with a new generation of drivers, including a younger trucker whose self-promoting, online-driven approach to the job challenges everything CJ has stood for.

When a letter arrives, like so many she’s ignored before, CJ finally opens it. Instead of facing what it asks, she does what she’s always done: she gets back on the road. But as her way of life begins to slip away, the distance she relies on can no longer keep the past at bay. What once felt like freedom starts to close in—until she can no longer outrun what she left behind.

A quietly powerful portrait of resilience and reckoning, THE LONG HAUL explores what happens when there’s nowhere left to run, and the only way forward is through.