Water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth's precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome and Mary. Ernest defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever, has grander designs: he wants Ernest's land for himself and he will go to any length to get it. The futuristic western is told in three chapters, which inventively layers Greek tragedy over an ethereal narrative that's steeped deeply in the values of the American West.
Written and directed by Jake Paltrow.
Cast: Nicholas Hoult (Flem Lever), Elle Fanning (Mary Holm), Michael Shannon (Ernest Holm), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Jerome Holm), Aimee Mullins (Katherine Holm), Andy McPhee (Jay), Alex McGregor (Sooz), Robert Hobbs (Caleb), David Butler (Sam Lever), Liah O'Prey (Anna / Ears), Carel Nel (Bandit), Christy Pankhurst (Robbie), David Clatworthy (Calvin Hooyman).
