A naked 15-year-old girl burns up in the sun.
A retired couple is found dead in a campground, all the blood drained from their bodies.
A family of three boards themselves up in their house in the daytime.
In this Eastern Washington state county, a sheriff tries to understand what is happening.
But he is afraid of death, which complicates the investigation.
Meanwhile, four strangers on the outskirts of town hold all the cards.
Inspired by the road-weary poetry of Townes Van Zandt, the laconic prose of Cormac McCarthy, the vivid textures of the first season of True Detective, and the rural terror of Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark, filmmaker Rustin Thompson (The Last Picture Shows) has crafted a modern-day Western set in a dystopian future that feels very much like today.
