An anthology of 7 short movies about adults thinking back to decisive moments in their pasts/childhoods: A Walk In Winter: A preteen boy returns as an adult to a wood where the remains of a body is found that may be his mom or dad. Guests: A preteen boy moves with his mom and seriously ill dad from Chicago to a small town in New Mexico, where he's bullied from day one at school. Almost Not Beautiful: Two sisters, one a drunk, meet as adults, looking back at their childhood. Miss Famous: A woman cleaning homes and living in a trailer park with her daughter, fantasizes about writing a novel and becoming famous. Lacunae: A son visits his parents after his dad's had a stroke. They bring up his ex, Laura, who has a son - his? He sees her. Smoke: 3 teenage boys, locked out of the VW in the wilderness, sit and talk into the night about sex before hitchhiking back to town. The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: A young man takes a detour on his way back home from college to a party with plenty of booze and drugs.—Scott Filtenborg
Based on short stories from Robert Boswell's collection, seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.