FEATURE · PERIOD COMING-OF-AGE DRAMA / MILITARY DRAMA
A punk Army Reservist ordered to deploy to Iraq seeks guidance from his active-duty younger brother; when the brother is killed in action, he prepares to disappear under a fake identity but must decide whether refusing the war means abandoning everyone who still loves him.
Eliot thinks disappearing will keep the Army from owning his life. Then his younger brother dies, and escape starts to look like another form of abandonment.
War, brothers, and the years afterward, written without a recruiting poster in sight.
The same men two decades on, in a cabin none of them want to be in.
After a former infantryman dies by suicide, the men who served with him reunite at his rural cabin to clean out his life — only to discover that the brotherhood they mythologized may be the thing keeping another one of them alive.
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An aspiring musician returns home convinced he is the one carrying his brother’s death the worst, and slowly realizes everyone he left behind has been fighting a private war of their own.
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