director | writer
Stephen Billick, 15’

featuring
John Bradford (HBO’s The Sympathizer)
Sonny Carl Davis (Last Night at the Alamo)

Former rodeo rider Cody Burnet enters the empty Devil’s Backbone Bar like a black-hat sort of bad cowboy, but when he engages in conversation with a mysterious woman who invites herself to his table, we learn that Cody has paid a group of West Texans to get a couple of Mexican children across the border to reunite with their parents. As he pays off the woman with a handful of bills, mysteries start to work their way into the narrative. But death is lurking around the edges of the story. Something in the deal has gone wrong. As Cody is approached by a long-haired man his age, the bar now incongruously packed with revelers, the story repeats and confuses, but the reality of his situation becomes clear. Cody’s long gone.