A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle...A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger...An innocent man is hunted by government agents for an unspecific crime...A boy and a girl fall in love while ransacking a rich man's house during the waning days of the Vietnam War...A compromised psychiatrist confronts the unstable patient he slept with...A father and son wage a lethal battle of wits over the ehereabouts of a stolen diamons and a missing woman.
In turn suspensful, surreal, romantic and tragically comic, these tales journey heading into the heart of our myths - about class, gender, freedom and regeneration through violence - and reveal that the truth waiting for us there is not what we'd expect.