There are terrible things happening in the desert: unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents; ever since she arrived. The Coltrane family's life has been devastated by an untimely death. Widowed Helen Coltrane (Melora Walters, "Big Love"), along with her teenage son (Jackson Rathbone, Twilight) and daughter, are given shelter by her reclusive and quirky gun-loving brother-in-law. As they grapple with the reality of their shattered, altered life and twist of fate, coincidence steps in with a seemingly lovely foster child (Sofia Vassilieva, "Medium") who appears touting a story that Helen's husband had pledged to take her in. And as they do, a macabre story of deception unfolds.
Barbara Stepansky is a WGA Award winner, a Nicholl Fellow and an award-winning independent film director. Born in Poland, her father's involvement in the Solidarity movement led to the family relocating to Germany. After receiving a degree in philosophy of science from University College London, Barbara pursued her Master's at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and in Directing at the American Film Institute with her acclaimed short film THE TROJAN COW. Her work was short listed for the Academy Awards, garnered the DGA Diversity Award, the Student Emmy and was featured on the Black List. She is the recipient of the Mary Pickford Foundation Scholarship and the Franklin J. Schaffner AFI Fellow Award. FLINT, a film she wrote about the Flint Water Crisis for Sony/Lifetime with Queen Latifah, was nominated for a Critics Choice and won a WGA Award. She is currently a co-producer on the Sony/Starz TV Show OUTLANDER.
