Half-siblings from contrasting racial and economic backgrounds embark on a fraught cross-country road trip to their dying father's hospice, confronting poverty, privilege, and fractured.
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Half-siblings from contrasting racial and economic backgrounds embark on a fraught cross-country road trip to their dying father's hospice, confronting poverty, privilege, and fractured.
Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail and only Michelle s part-time job at the Taco Bell to sustain them. Leah and her stepbrother Tim are white and middle class from suburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning lacrosse games and getting college applications in on time. Michelle and Leah only have one thing in common: Buck Devereaux, the biological father...
will contain mild spoilers
No romantic or sexual content depicted
No violent or gory content depicted
Various slurs including ableist, anti-gay, and misogynistic language
Mother's chronic heroin addiction and imprisonment central to plot
Anti-gay slurs appear but no LGBTQ+ characters or themes
No religious themes present
No magic or witchcraft elements
No occult content present
Examines race, poverty, and social privilege through family crisis
No self-harm or suicide depicted
Poverty, parental incarceration, and family hardship depicted
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