[1] Solo, a Senegalese cab driver, is working to provide a better life for his young family in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

William, an old man with a lifetime of regrets, hires Solo to take him to Blowing Rock, a peak in which updrafts cause objects that are dropped from it to fly upwards.

William does not ask for a ride back from the rock and is obviously depressed, so Solo assumes that the old man intends to commit suicide there.

The site’s consensus reads, "An original and thoughtful human drama, Goodbye Solo looks at relationships and loneliness while proving director Ramin Bahrani's is an important American voice.

"[4] In 2008, Goodbye Solo won the Venice Film Festival’s FIPRESCI International Critics Prize.