THE WORLD
1887
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
Mabel Clarke
Black Woman
Confidant
Hester’s Aunt, Respected
Honest, Resilient, Tough, Repressed
Expression
Haiwee
Shoshone Indigenous American
Deuteragonist
Spiritual Apprentice
Androgynous, Rebellious, Visionary
Knowledge
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, 1887: 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.