This One Step
10/28/2025 | 5m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
A veteran and his wife must re-learn the rhythm of their relationship, complicated by lingering PTSD
A young Texan veteran and his wife must re-learn the rhythm of their relationship, complicated by lingering PTSD and physical difficulties. Each day, they take steps—forward and backward, to re-learn their emotional and physical rhythm. “This One Step,” shows how simple, everyday moments such as hiking a hill or dancing the Texan two-step can be huge milestone markers for a military veteran.
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GI Film Festival San Diego is a local public television program presented by KPBS
This One Step
10/28/2025 | 5m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
A young Texan veteran and his wife must re-learn the rhythm of their relationship, complicated by lingering PTSD and physical difficulties. Each day, they take steps—forward and backward, to re-learn their emotional and physical rhythm. “This One Step,” shows how simple, everyday moments such as hiking a hill or dancing the Texan two-step can be huge milestone markers for a military veteran.
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It's just a dream.
It's okay, it's okay.
(bed creaking) (insects chirping) (thunder rumbling) (birds tweeting) (birds continue tweeting) (soft upbeat music) Are you gonna help me or distract me?
- Both.
- (laughs) Get out.
You wanna go dancing tomorrow night?
- Or we can just dance here instead?
- You always say that.
Every time.
♪ Up, up ♪ ♪ Take me up ♪ - I'm not giving up, you know?
- I know.
(birds tweeting) (soft music) (birds continue tweeting) (soft music continues) (birds continue tweeting) (soft music continues) (gravel crunching) - Still bugging you?
(guns blasting) Is it just when we go from pavement to dirt?
(guns blasting) (soldiers shouting) Travis?
- What?
- Is it better if I drive slower?
- No, it's a truck, not a Humvee.
- Got it.
(gravel crunching) (soft music) (insects chirping) Don't even think about it.
(insects chirping) (birds tweeting) (birds continue tweeting) - How long have you been staring at me?
(Ava laughs) - [Ava] You slept through the whole night.
(birds tweeting) (soft music) (birds tweeting) He thinks I'm a carrot.
- Yeah.
(Ava laughs) (birds tweeting) (soft music) (indistinct chatter) ♪ Faces the middle of the night ♪ ♪ In every corner ♪ ♪ Persuasion she'll find ♪ ♪ Magnetizing you and I ♪ ♪ In this vortex of mine ♪ ♪ I wanna go up ♪ ♪ Lift me up ♪ ♪ Take me so far away ♪ (soft music) (soft music continues) (soft music continues)
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