The Ride

At the age of seventeen and three weeks, Don Michael “Mike” marries his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Michelle, in a shotgun wedding. Being a high-school dropout, Mike struggles with his role as the sole provider, and his relationship with Michelle deteriorates. They divorce after seven years of marriage. Mike moves to Houston from Fort Worth, Texas, and after five years’ experience in the glass business, he makes a living as a glazier. Dissatisfied with his construction job, however, he eventually moves back to Forth Worth where he becomes a taxi driver for the Fort Worth Yellow Cab Company and encounters characters of all sorts on the job. One fateful July day, he takes a call on the two-way radio to pick up two men, Donnie and Lefty, on HEB Boulevard. Soon after, Mike’s life takes a tumultuous turn as he inadvertently becomes caught up in one of the most highly publicized FBI-Mafia sting operations.