so it is set in 1960 montana, and ed oxenbould is this young kid who's kind of awkward and ill at easethe world, and his parents are on the brink of a marital crisis. they've moved from town to town, they've ended up here, this is evidently moved many times, and jerry has got a good job but then he loses hisjob. when he is offered hisjob back again, his pride is too and he won't take it. he announces what he will do is become one of the people fighting the wildfires that are up in the mountains, are threatening montana, which his wife thinks is a crazy idea. here's a clip. i put my name on a list, i waited for my chance and now they finally have a place for me. you don't know anything about fires, you'll get burned up. i've been reading about them, i know enough. you've been reading about them? you've been studying up? don't turn my words on me, jean. dad, what's going on? your father is leaving us to go and fight those wild fires. what? dad, why? he won't take a job in a grocery store, but he'll go out with a bunch of deadbeats and risk getting killed. what does it pay? what? what doe