 Obsession cuts the chaos. It s choosing to be with the thing that makes you happy. Obsession brings order. Order simplifies. Blair (Romola Garai) is a young high-flying banker in the City of London. Jono (Adam Lake) is her introverted seventeen-year-old brother. Blair longs to share some common ground with Jono, and feels responsible for his happiness, but only one thing makes Jono happy: the Hollywood movie-star River Phoenix. At a boozy business lunch one October day in 1993, Blair hears of Phoenix s death. Jono is at home on his own. Blair rushes frantically through the chaos of London, desperate to reach her brother with the news. Running for River is a short film about the birth of an icon and the volatility of sibling love.