In Bakersfield, California, in the heart of the Central Valley, a constellation of lives unfolds — teenagers searching for their place in a shifting world, and adults who carry the weight of choices made long ago. Their paths cross and echo one another in a landscape caught between oil fields and orchards, memory and change, isolation and possibility.
Through their words, gestures, and silences, they try to free themselves from the weight of what came before and imagine new horizons.
Our film is a choral portrait of these intertwined destinies, gradually slipping into a waking dream where what is lived and what is imagined begin to blur, as heat thickens in the air and the season drifts toward fire.