Train Dreams (2025) is an American film based on the eponymous 2011 novella by Denis Johnson.

The film tells the story of the life of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton). At the age of 6, young Robert is orphaned & put on a train to travel to live with a family in Idaho.

The family that raises him doesn’t tell him where he came from & he spends his younger years without direction or purpose.

Robert Grainier becomes a logger & he with his fellow loggers & railroad workers build bridges.

He marries Gladys (Felicity Jones) and the couple have a daughter.

After the tragic loss of Gladys & Katie in a fire, Robert lives a solitary life as a hermit.