Synopsis
Savagery, betrayal, and revenge govern the desolate landscape of Perez’s (THE BIG EMPTY) third film, a haunting, character-driven neo-noir spiked with black comedy. American ex-patriot Walter Pool is a broken man living in obscurity in a dusty tin shack on the edge of Santiago, Mexico. Writer’s block prevents him from finishing — or starting — his novel, and alcoholism keeps him trapped in a nightmarish mire of dementia and squalor. Convinced h[…]