In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn't do.
Cinematography
Golden-hour wheat fields that feel like another character.
Acting
Kartheiser's haunted stillness before Mad Men fame.
Score
Sparse, melancholic guitar that lingers for days.
Director
Mark Milgard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in Montana with a crew so small that director Mark Milgard sometimes operated camera himself.
Premiered at Sundance 2004 but barely released, becoming a cult favorite among fans of early Kartheiser and Manning before Orange Is the New Black.
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