The film genre Road Movie is fundamentally shaped by its spatial conventions. The journey in a Road Movie is based on the existence of interior and exterior spaces, home and homeland, civilization and wilderness. This dichotomy of space is gender-specific; the attribution of female belonging to the home as a counterpoint to male movement through the outside world has a long tradition. For the Road Movie, this means that heroines driving a vehicle alone represent a break with tradition. In this way, the interconnections and boundaries of the space-gender-genre conventions of the Road Movie come into focus. Does the dichotomy of space and its gender-specific attribution still hold after Thelma & Louise or Leaving Normal?.