THE WORLD
1895
Barlowe Springs, NV
Death Valley
20 years post Civil War
Natural Spring
Isolated
Harsh
Exploited
Damned
THE DOVES
Hester Clarke
Bi-racial Black Woman
Protagonist
Doctor’s Assistant
Duality, Fiery, Bright, Ambitious
Reform
Rosemary Thayer
White Woman
Confidant
Widow
Deep thinker, Untapped power
Truth
Annette Belle
White Woman
Wild Card
Prostitute
Discerning, Survivor, Haunted
Freedom
Mabel Clarke
Black Woman
Wisdom
Hester's Aunt, Respected
Honest, Resilient, Repressed
Reform
Haiwee
Shoshone Indigenous American
Deuteragonist
Spiritual Apprentice
Androgynous, Rebellious, Visionary
Knowledge
Dee Whitfield
White Woman
Skeptic
Pregnant Wife
Nurturing, Weary, Tough
Identity
THE STORY
A one hour Horror Western told from the female perspective.
It is the consequences of exploiting nature in There Will be Blood
Meets the bleak and otherworldly beauty of the desert in The Proposition
Meets a woman confronting her shadow side in Us.
Gritty. Dangerous. Bleak.
Death Valley, 1895: a first generation free Black woman
struggles to reform her new home but is met with opposition
by the traditional town, her own family, and an insidious evil that grows angrier and more destructive with every unchallenged injustice.