Odd people turn up in deserts.
People are also inclined to disappear.
Here, unpurged sinners may be in friendship with God.
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Damnation, however, isnt far away.
Visiting detective Travis (Simon Baker) doesnt seem to be in friendship with anyone.
No surprise when he pulls out his working kit: spoon, burner and syringe.
Travis presents as a hard man, but something in him must be aching.
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Travis job is to decide whether there is any mileage in reopening the inquiry.
Leon is said to be dead, but he visits his old dugout anyway.
Is there a body in that grave?
Who would know, one way or the other, out here?
Its not a question he will get to answer not conclusively, anyway.
Sen frames his sparsely written story within familiar genre markers.
I dont talk to police, especially white ones, says Charlie to Travis.
It is a simple sentence that freights a huge weight of history.
What Sen doesnt do is present a crime, investigate it and wrap it up with a solution.
Look at this single streetlight on a desert highway.
Gasp at the sheer breadth of the mining field seen from the air.
