The Film
It takes place over three days,
starting at the airport, where two people who went to college (but didn't really know each other) meet on their way to a memorial for a college friend. Andre feels like it's the “brain injury” he suffered back then, in a swim at the quarry, that's causing him to misunderstand why the flight has been cancelled, but Ella, cool and hiding out in a normal life with a normal boyfriend, and a dog, can’t understand it either. They rent a car together, and as they drive to the memorial Andre’s more tangible sense of damage begins to leak, and before they arrive at the service his dislocation and aphasia has spread to everyone, and everywhere.
Oh yes, there is a pursuit.
It comes into view in Act 1, becomes central in Act 2, and culminates in Act 3 at two locations: the quarry, where Andre hurt his head back then, and the Community Center, where the memorial for their friend, Alex, is being held. But who is in the casket? And will Andre and Ella get back home? And who is in the car behind them?
The plot is a ‘double chase,’ but nothing like the ones Hitchcock engineered: this one carries elements of David Lynch, with some of that darkness and wholly unexpected threat. And in betwixt and in between these is a curious pair named Fingers, an old blues player with a collection of records. . . in his shed, and Nadine, his ‘nurse.’ They may hold the real keys to this thing, and may be sitting in the driver’s seat.