Alfred Hobbs was a great traveler. In his day he circumnavigated the earth seven times, scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, and survived typhoons in the Southern Oceans – he was irrepressible, roaming the world driven by his thirst to learn its secrets. Today, at 83 years old, there is one last trip that Alfred intends to make.

Weeks after their wedding in 1955, American anthropologist, Alfred Hobbs, and Danish artist, Jakobine Schou arrived in Casablanca, North Africa with nothing but a little wedding money and open minds. Little did they realize, their honeymoon would take them around the world and back, changing them forever and laying the foundations for this film.

In Casablanca, they chanced upon a dilapidated 1935 Austin London taxi, and after a little “persuading” they became its proud owners. With brazen abandon, they cranked up the tired old engine and headed straight into the Sahara Desert – they were beginning a four-year odyssey to the other side of the earth.

Their journey was long and adventurous – they were imprisoned in a desert fortress, and nearly killed more than once, but drove deeper and deeper into Africa. From the east coast they freighted the taxi to India, drove north into Pakistan, then Afghanistan. When back through India they met the boy Dalai Lama, and grateful for their offers of support, he gave them a gift – a small Tibetan dog named Sindru. Onward they journeyed into Asia, and from the seats of their old taxi, they carved a path through the rain forests – two free-spirits with their new passenger, along for the ride. Then tragically, Sindru suddenly died, but just days after giving birth to three puppies. Jakobine cared for them like babies, and on they went.

By the the time they reached Japan they were celebrities. They appeared on a popular TV show, telling how they transformed their honeymoon into a full blown voyage of discovery... During their 4 year mobile love affair, they'd logged 38,000 km and repaired 249 flat tires. The Japanese were amazed...

Then, Alfred and Jakobine... came home.

Life was suddenly very different than their adventurous years with the taxi. They resumed graduate studies – life returned to "normal". Jakobine dreamed of starting a family together but Alfred longed for the challenge of the open road. With the inertia of a sedentary life slowly eclipsing his memories, one day Alfred told Jakobine he was leaving – to “get on down the road...”

Jakobine was devastated and it would take her a long while to pick herself up. But then, something neither of them could have predicted happened. Many months later, they met at a party, one thing led to another, and nine months later, Alfred and Jakobine had a baby son. Alfred tried to do what he could to support Jakobine and their child, but with little money or resources, their lives would separate again. Jakobine would eventually remarry –  Alfred would not.

Now, forty years later, at the age of 83, Alfred is planning to hit the open road once again, leaving America for good, but first, there are things that he needs to do and people he needs to see, and Alfred has a plan.

Fate has placed Alfred and Jakobine at opposite ends of the legendary Route 66. In Taos, New Mexico, we find Alfred, methodically restoring the old, deteriorating taxi that he has looked after all these years, intending to take it on one last, grand journey. 50 years after their momentous adventure, an 83-year-old man will climb aboard a 73-year-old London taxi, determined to drive 2500 miles east to seek out and surprise his once wife by arriving in their old taxi, and offering her “one last drive … before it’s too late.” Then, Alfred Hobbs will pass the keys to their grown son, and head off down the road again...

Alfred & Jakobine is a story of a long-broken relationship, an unlikely, old taxi cab at the center of it, and a chronicle of one man’s unique way of forging closure with it.

We’ll accompany Alfred on his journey from Taos to upstate New York. As he tells his story, we’ll weave in rare, archival TV interviews, vivid journal entries and clips from newspaper articles written by bewildered journalists when the ‘London Taxi’ came to town. All this material pales compared to the hours of 8 & 16mm ‘home movie’ footage that Alfred & Jakobine shot as they traveled. These moving and often humorous records bear witness to the astonishing sights and sounds that our youthful travelers encountered 50 years ago.

Alfred’s last great trip through America will see him encountering a motley assortment of characters, each one drawing from him details of his adventures with Jakobine and his motivations for making this eccentric journey with the old taxi.

Finally, we’ll be beside Alfred as he anxiously crosses over the bridge to the upstate New York farmhouse where Jakobine has lived with Rusty, the gentle man she married over thirty years ago. Alfred doesn't know how Jakobine will react to his arrival, and seeing their old taxi. Nor how Rusty will deal with the arrival of the man who was once her adventurous husband. Only time will tell.

The story of Alfred & Jakobine is unique, but also a universal human tale reminding us that even though one's life often encounters endings, it also experiences new beginnings. It is a story that reveals no matter how old we may be, or how many years may have slipped by, it's never too late to wonder, to wander and to journey back into one's past.