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In the winter of 1968, a young woman called Harriet disappears outside of Denver. Immediately after, her father dies mysteriously. The family's three staying sons - Wayne, Roy, and Conrad - develop increasingly distant as the specters of murder, family, and suspicion loom. As the brothers grow older, they learn that loss comes in many forms - in lack and silence, and in loss of life. Ages later, Wayne's only child confronts the brothers, uncovering long-buried resentments which have plagued the family for generations. We face Conrad, an ex-army alcoholic, the now sober but wheelchair-bound Roy, and an extremely distant and reclusive Wayne - delirious with the belief that he is able to create his own history. Profoundly dark and tragically genuine, the narrative arranges each brother's testimony into a fractured dialogue - one that, were it real, could bring the brothers back again together after an eternity of estrangement. By using a discord of interviews, undelivered characters, and transcripts of Wayne's compulsive music recordings, the brothers sift through the levels of resentment, bitterness, and betrayal that marred their adolescence. Each distorted ram brings the narrative nearer to the truths of Harriet's disappearance and her father's erratic demise. But stories decay quickly, and the brothers' recollections serve and then expose a darker beast feeding at the heart of the busted family - one shrouded in suspicion and governed by regret.
