While the narrator is traveling into remote northern Canada to search for her missing father, the narrator’s lover Joe and her friends David and Anna are accompanying her for a sort of road trip vacation. During the vacation, David wants to direct a documentary film called Random Samples, composed of supposedly random visuals they encounter during their road trip, and he recruits Joe to “do[] the camera work.” David’s recruitment of Joe despite Joe’s lack of experience and his reference to “Renaissance Men” casts light on David’s sexism and the gender politics of art in the narrative.
David could…