There are shades of Peter Bogdanovichs 1973 Depression-set comedyPaper Moonin Argentinian director Ivan Funds melancholy road movieThe Message.
InPaper Moonthis involved the sale of inscribed bibles to grieving widows desperate for a memento of their late husbands.
Its a strange, itinerant life, and its hard to know exactly how well paid it is.
‘The Message’Insomnia Films
They even have a website, it later transpires.
Most of all, however, it is a muted meditation on the meaning of it all.