Moss (2016) - full transcript
In this Southern Gothic coming-of-age tale, an isolated and troubled young man, Moss, meets a mysterious and beautiful hiker on the banks of the river near his home on his eighteenth birthday. She guides him on a journey of self-discovery and helps him overcome the tragic death of his mother and the shadow it has cast on his relationship with his detached father.
- Another year gone, Ma.
Ain't nothin' changed.
Same old shit.
Dad still ain't fixed the house.
Gram's still missing you bad.
Tells me all the time
how you was growin' up.
Says I'm a lot like you was.
Same eyes and stuff.
She got a paint can full
for me, Ma, for my future.
I can't reach it, Daddy.
Go see Mommy now.
- Yes, sir.
- Dad used to tell
me God wanted you home,
so he sent me to get you.
It was God's will.
She loved me so much that
she died so I could be born.
- That's why we come
visit her on your birthday, son.
- I don't think he
believes that no more, Ma.
He can't ever let you go.
Every time he looks at me,
he sees you and what
I took from him.
I guess that's why he don't
look my way much no more.
He'd rather look
for old driftwood
around this overgrown island.
Well, I guess one
thing has changed.
Your boy's 18 today.
Oh yeah.
- You out already?
- Yup, shot breakfast.
- You cut all your hair off too.
What you gettin' ready
to do, join the marines?
- Maybe.
- What you
doin' up so early?
- It's my birthday.
Don't you remember?
- I got Ma's pills, they're
in there on the kitchen table.
I want you to take
'em over to her.
- You do it.
- I'm collecting, I can't do it.
- It's my birthday,
I just wanna chill.
- Chill, chill, wanna go
hang out with that river rat.
- Ain't nothin'
wrong with him.
- Yeah, except
he's a drug addict.
- He just
smokes a little.
- Lives on that
raft, the roof leaks,
he thinks it's funny,
you think it's funny.
You just wanna go hang
out there and smoke weed.
Take them pills to your grandma.
Don't you think
she deserves that?
- Oh, why, 'cause I
killed her only daughter?
- Don't you ever say that again.
- It's true!
- You gotta grow
up and be a man.
You'll never get in
the Navy like this.
- A man?
This is what a man does,
just make stupid shit
out of driftwood?
Why don't you fix
the fucking house?
- This is what I
do for a living.
This is how I put food
on the table, son!
- Fuckin' barely.
- Get outta here, go take
those to your grandma.
- After I eat.
- You're still under my roof
and you do what I
say long as you are.
- Yeah, whatever.
Hey, Archie.
You're a good boy,
Archie, good boy.
It's my birthday today, Archie.
It's gonna suck.
Due time, Archie, due time.
Yo, Blaze!
- Hey man, mornin'!
Get on in here.
- Appreciate that, man.
- Hey buddy, how you doin'?
- Good day again.
- Wanna smoke?
- It's my birthday,
what do you think?
- Wake and
bake, baby boy.
That's how we do it.
Lookin' for some coffee?
- Yes please.
- All right, man.
I love me some weed
and coffee, man.
They even each other out.
Enjoy.
- Check that, some of
that out right there, man.
Tell me what you think.
- Yeah.
Mm.
- That right there got
the trichomes on it
with, you know, it's
straight medicinal
where gon', you gonna
get a couple of,
couple of head
rushes after that,
after that second
hit, know what I mean?
Local and organic.
Check that out man.
- I gotta
patch up at Snow's cut.
- Man, I gotta move.
- Tell me about, man.
Daddy diff real gettin' ya down?
- Yeah, seems like
every little thing
set him off these days.
- Well, it's
your birthday, man.
He's probably sad, you know?
- How do you think I feel?
- He's an artist, man.
They get kinda sensitive.
But I like his art, it's
better than makin' meth.
- Hey, check this out.
Got a whole box of these at a
yard sale down in Seabreeze.
- Yeah, what is it?
- Collection of nature shit.
This one about some wolves.
- Man, I
got the munchies.
- I got, uh, cereal, man,
some cereal and soda.
- Yeah, I'll take some.
- All right.
- You been back
to the old spot yet?
- Nah man,
place abandoned.
I ain't been down
there in three years,
since my ma got locked up.
- Oughta go
back down there though
and find some things
I left behind.
- But I like it here.
Livin' off the grid.
- Has developed.
The elk that have
the most reproductive
potential for the herd.
In other words, the wolves
were killing the animals
that were most vulnerable.
Now, we've also found
that the elk population
has been declining
since around the time
of wolf reinduction.
- Man, can you believe it?
- Is why.
- 18 and still
ain't done it yet.
- If you start lookin'
for babes in the woods,
maybe you find one.
- In
due committee time.
We've been in the grips
of each section here
and the droughts.
We found that that's
had big impact.
We've also had human
hunting pressure
on elk that migrate
outside the park.
And we also have the one of the
largest suites of carnivores
in any place in North America.
Grizzly bears,
black bears, coyote.
- Oh, I gotta get
goin' to Gram's.
She's waitin'.
- Word?
Hey man, take her some
of these herbs for me.
- If we wanna put--
- It's good for her.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, send her
some of my love, man.
- I appreciate that, man.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Tall tales of
what they think will survive.
- Called him a river rat.
Ah, livin' that way
ain't so bad.
Probably better than
some old trailer park
full of bad memories.
River in, river out.
How 'bout some
fish for that fire?
- Hi.
- They're fresh, I caught
'em up river this morning.
- Sure.
- I'm Moss.
- Mary.
- That's my ma's name.
- Really?
May I?
- You sure?
I don't mind doin' the guttin'.
- Yeah.
- You got skills.
- Can you hand me
that stick over there.
- Yes, ma'am.
- Oh God, don't call me ma'am.
Makes me feel like an old lady.
- Oh please, you
ain't old by no means.
- Yeah, I'm older than you.
- Not much.
- I just turned 30.
How old are yoU?
- 18 today.
- Really?
Happy birthday.
- Finally ain't a kid no more.
- Once a kid, always a kid.
Nobody ever really grows up.
- How long y'all here for?
- Oh, it's just me.
I keep the two tents
'cause it's a little
less vulnerable looking.
- That's smart.
- I try.
- Where ya headed?
- I get up the East
Coast to New York.
I got a brother there.
- New York.
You got a long ways ahead a ya.
- Yeah, but I'm takin' my time.
I don't know, this
year I decided
this is my year to take
off from regular life.
- Regular life?
Yeah, this is about as
regular as it gets for me.
- Really?
You're from around here?
- Yeah, just back
through those woods.
Been here my whole life.
Was born on the island.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Well, it's really
beautiful here.
What brings you down river?
- Ah, for my gram's.
Takin' her these pills.
She's just around the bend.
About damn near raised me
'cause I never really had a mom.
- Oh.
Do you mind if I ask why not?
- Sure.
She died havin' me.
- Oh.
I'm sorry.
- But Pa raised me.
He tried to protect me, you
know, from the pain and all,
but you can't really
make up the difference
for a missin' mom.
Thank you.
- So, your dad, he
never remarried?
- Nope, says there's
only one woman for him.
Spends all his time
holed up in a shack
and just makin' all sorts
of shit from driftwood.
- Sounds pretty cool.
- You ever married?
- Once.
But it was short-lived.
- Huh.
- He had an affair.
- If I was ever married to you,
I'd treat you like a queen.
- Thanks.
- I mean it.
- Oh God.
- Hey, you smoke?
- Well, yeah, what else is
there to do in these woods?
- You got papers?
- No, but you know
what, I have an apple.
- An apple?
- I'll make us an apple bong.
- Apple bong, ain't
never heard of such a thing.
- Really?
- Yah.
- I'll show ya, come on.
You sure are good lookin', Moss.
- Yeah?
Ain't done me much good so far.
- Come on, you don't
have a girlfriend?
Ooh.
- Nah, I never really tried.
- That is super fresh.
- My man, Blaze grows it
and sells it down by
the river in the summer.
- Well, that right there is
a friend to keep.
- He lives on a raft.
He's off the grid,
you could say.
- That
sounds like my hero.
- Yeah, there's a
lotta that around here.
Like my grandma, she ain't
never had a bank account.
She keeps all her money in a
paint can back by the shed.
Don't have anything good
to say about the system.
Wanna go for a swing?
- A swing?
- Yeah,
it's just up there.
- Wow.
It's gorgeous up here.
- Been comin'
here since I was a tot.
My pop put this swing here.
- No way.
Geez, I haven't been
on one of these,
I don't know how long.
Go on, it's your turn.
- Nah.
- Come on, try it.
What, grown men
don't go on swings?
Let's go.
- All right then.
Yeah?
- Do you think
it'll still hold me?
- I don't know, we'll see.
Ride it, cowboy.
Hey, you ever done
shrooms before?
- Nope.
- Really?
- There's a lotta
things I ain't done yet.
- Well, there's a first
time for everything.
Wanna try 'em with me?
- What happen?
- Oh, it's a bit
different every time,
but the first time I did it,
it felt like all these walls
inside of me just evaporated.
Very therapeutic.
- Well, how long does it last?
- We start now, it'll
be done by sundown.
Believe me, you don't think
about time on these things.
Happy birthday.
Warning, tastes like shit.
- Meet ya
on the other side.
- Hey!
- What say, Blaze, how
you doin', brother?
- Buddy,
what's goin' on, man?
- Ah, just sale old, same old.
- That, and grab me a Reese's.
And pop, yeah.
Yeah, man.
- Snack time.
- I don't need
a bag, no, no bags.
- No bags, okay.
4.28.
- That's $5, man.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Thank you, Blaze.
- Yeah.
- Appreciate it.
- All right.
- Have a
good and enjoy 'em.
- All right, man.
- Come on
back now, take care.
- Enjoy the fish.
- Oh!
- Nobody ever really grows up.
Nobody ever really grows up.
She's right.
You just get set in
your ways, that's all.
I can see it now,
what's inside me.
I'm buried.
And she's pullin' it out,
pullin' it out, like a wishbone.
And she's got one side
and I got the other.
And we could be
so good together.
That's my dad, he
can't see me like this.
- What's he doin'?
- He's gatherin'
wood for his art.
- That's cool.
- I shouldn't
a said that to him.
That's all he's
got, his art and me.
All these years, pilin' up
wood between us and the past,
that's what he's been doin',
makin' somethin' out of it.
- Hey.
You guys have a bond
that can never be broken.
- You say the best things.
- Yeah.
I try to tell the
truth sometimes.
We should go to the beach.
♪ When the sun
rose this mornin' ♪
♪ And I was up with the light
♪ Smilin' and shakin' my pain
♪ Got thinkin'
about last night ♪
♪ You took my arms
under the stars ♪
- Hm.
♪ And I spun you around
♪ And when you drove off
- Yes.
♪ I just stood there
fixin' to skip town ♪
♪ Sister blue, sister blue
♪ And I walked
- Shoot.
♪ More with you
♪ Sister blue
- A lotta damage.
♪ Sister blue
♪ I just wanna keep
on lookin' at you ♪
♪ I might just have to
interrupt you again ♪
♪ Sweet lady covered in vain
♪ But my heart's
still wide open ♪
- Hm.
- Blaze will
never believe this shit.
She don't know what
she's doin' to me.
My insides just warm
like melted butter.
God, stay with me
a little longer.
Moss, just go for it.
- Hey Buddy.
- Hey,
how ya doin', Ray?
How you gettin' along, good?
- Doin' well, doin' well.
- Ain't seen ya--
- How 'bout yourself?
- In a long time, o'er here.
- Yes, it's been a
while, it's been a while.
My boy's got a birthday today.
- Right.
- And I'm lookin'
for a fishin'
reel, surf fishin'.
- Oh, right here.
We got a couple of 'em here,
but this one right here--
- Is that a Surfcaster?
- Yeah.
- That's what it is.
- Well, you surf or use it
on the pier, either one.
- Oh yeah, that'll work.
Let's see how much it be at.
We got, we got 35.99 on it,
but since I've been knowin' ya
a long time, how's 30 bucks?
- You got a deal.
- All right, good
deal, good deal.
- Thank you, man.
- All right, here, hold--
- Can I ask you a favor?
- Hold this one here, right.
- Do you happen to
have any kind of paper?
- Yeah, I got some fish
wrappin', wrappin' paper.
- Yeah, anything, that'll work.
That'll work.
- That'll work?
- Okay, good.
- Yeah, man, I appreciate it.
All right, just get about
that big right there, Buddy.
- Yup, got
ya right there.
- Okay.
- Are you still, uh, doin'
them uh, wood carvings?
- The sculptures, yes.
- Yeah, yeah, that's it.
- I see you got a wall right
there where I could put one.
- Yeah, sure,
I don't see why not.
You want me to put it for sale?
- Yes sir, that'll
do me just fine.
I can always use
an extra dollar.
- I know that's
right, I hear all that.
- Well, all right then.
Do you happen to have a box
you can put it in for me?
- Yeah, we got a box
for ya right here.
- Hey, that works.
- We'll fix ya right up.
How's your boy doin'?
- He's doin' good, he's
in and out like a cat.
- Right, I mean,
that's them young ones,
you know how they
are, ball of fire.
- Yeah, we
both been there, man.
- Yeah, I know that's right.
- You know how it was
when we was that age.
- Oh yeah, oh yeah,
that's how it is.
Okay.
You got that one there.
- Mm-hmm.
- Appreciate that.
- All right, all right,
thank you very much.
- Yeah, tell him I
said happy birthday.
- Will do, thanks a lot.
- Take care, man.
- All right, come on in.
- Thank you, sir.
- How you doin' today?
- Good, how you doin'?
- Great.
- Hey!
- How you all doin'?
- How you doin', Blaze?
- That stuff's hella
long in there, man.
- It's good to see you.
- Good to see you, man.
Good to see you.
- Hey, I've got that new
blueberry blue, blue booty.
- All right, man.
- Blurry.
Blurry, know what I mean?
- All right.
- Hit it.
- Check it out.
For you.
What y'all lookin'
for, a 20, 40?
- I think just 20.
- 20.
- 20?
- Yeah, home grown?
- All right.
It's definitely the most
organic stuff on the market.
You'll not find
that anywhere else.
- That's good stuff,
we'll take it.
- Hey man, make sure
you let everybody,
you know, you're little--
- Send 'em your way.
Your way.
- Yeah, we'll send 'em your way.
- Yeah man, you
know where I'm at.
- Absolutely.
- You know?
- Appreciate it.
- Catch me on the river, man.
- Will do.
- All right.
What's goin' on with the place?
What?
The door's open?
Aw man, this is a dump in here.
I should sell this stuff
at a yard sale, nice.
Somethin' stink.
Was it worth it, Mom?
Lose your baby girl
and me for a drug.
Aw, man.
Ah.
There it is, memories.
Good old memories.
Got that.
Ain't never comin' back here.
- I think
I'm coming down.
- Really?
Still feelin' kinda buzzy.
- I definitely got a
higher tolerance than you.
- It's been the
best day of my life.
- Yeah, I gotta get goin'
before it starts
gettin' dark, ya know?
- You don't
wanna watch the sunset?
- I just
need to be alone.
- So what, I'm never
gonna see you again?
- Come by in the
morning for breakfast.
- You have
a collect call from--
- It's mom.
- An
inmate at New Hanover,
a North Carolina
correctional facility.
To accept the charges for
this call, press three.
- Baby.
- Hey Ma.
- Oh, my baby, you okay?
- Yup.
- You got that, that
solar panel working yet?
- You know I'm
good with my hands, Ma.
- But guess what,
it ain't gonna keep
you warm this winter.
- I'm
chasin' summer, Ma.
I'm goin' down the river soon.
- They still ain't
rented the old spot?
- Nah, just like we
left it the last time I checked.
- Mm, maybe you oughta
go check on our stuff then.
- It's just stuff.
- This call will
be terminated in 10 seconds.
- I'll try to pass by.
When can I go see baby sis?
- They said maybe
when she's a little older.
I can't do nothin', baby.
She's in the system,
I'm in the system.
I'm so sorry.
I love you so much, I'll call
you same time next week, okay?
- This call is
being terminated, thank you.
- Moss!
Moss!
- Man, she
was down by the river
like out of a
dream or somethin'.
- She was a goddess, man.
Her eyes were like blue moons.
- Man, stop
fuckin' with me, man.
Yo, this whiskey
smells like cow piss.
- I found this
one at a, at a yard sale.
- Who the hell sells
whiskey at a yard sale?
- Man, if you ain't know, man,
that's when people sell
whiskey at a yard sale, man.
- If they
aren't calling a mate,
why are they singing?
- What's her name?
- Mary.
- Mary, like your mom?
- I didn't really get
to know her too well, man.
- Hm, that's crazy.
- For centuries.
Scientists may one
day find out from--
- Best day of my life, dude.
- Spawning
voices of the sea.
For now, the private life
of these big giants remains.
- Hi, how are you?
- Great, great,
how you doin' tonight?
- What can
I get for you today?
- Um, I'd like
the bologna sandwich
and the fried okra.
- You want anything
on your bologna sandwich?
- Uh, mustard.
- Do you want
that on white bread?
- Yes, on white bread.
And could make that a double
order and make one 'em to,
one of 'em to go?
- Mm-hmm.
- And a Pepsi or Coke.
- All right, you
have seat wherever you like,
and I'll bring it out to you.
- All right, thank you.
- Order.
Here you go.
- All right.
- Your food'll be right up--
- Thanks.
- In just a few minutes.
- Ma!
Ma.
Sorry it took me so long, Ma.
Got your pills.
Ma?
Ma?
She keeps all of her
money in a paint can,
right by the shed.
- The
big storm is the cue
for the this important
time of this frog's life.
It's a male in search of a mate.
- Hey, bud.
Any luck?
- Couple a bites.
I'm a headin' in soon.
- Well, do you
mind if I join you?
- Sure.
- Thanks.
- It's like she was
never even here.
Like Mom.
Just some kinda dream.
Let it go.
Let it all go.
Dad?
You're a free man.
Thanks for the reel.
- You're welcome, son.
- Dad.
- Yeah.
- Ma passed.
I got there too late, Dad.
- It don't really
matter now, son.
- Her paint can was empty.
- I moved that last week.
- You moved her loot?
- She asked me to.
She wanted me to take
care of it for ya.
- She seemed at peace.
- Well, at least she's
not in pain anymore.
Fish a little
longer with me, son,
and we'll go take care of her.
We just gotta let her go.
- Sometimes,
the tide is rage,
and sometimes,
she's just so still.
She takes it where she wants to.
Either yesterday's
memories or tomorrow's,
it don't matter.
On the river in the morning,
the shore's always new.
Ain't nothin' changed.
Same old shit.
Dad still ain't fixed the house.
Gram's still missing you bad.
Tells me all the time
how you was growin' up.
Says I'm a lot like you was.
Same eyes and stuff.
She got a paint can full
for me, Ma, for my future.
I can't reach it, Daddy.
Go see Mommy now.
- Yes, sir.
- Dad used to tell
me God wanted you home,
so he sent me to get you.
It was God's will.
She loved me so much that
she died so I could be born.
- That's why we come
visit her on your birthday, son.
- I don't think he
believes that no more, Ma.
He can't ever let you go.
Every time he looks at me,
he sees you and what
I took from him.
I guess that's why he don't
look my way much no more.
He'd rather look
for old driftwood
around this overgrown island.
Well, I guess one
thing has changed.
Your boy's 18 today.
Oh yeah.
- You out already?
- Yup, shot breakfast.
- You cut all your hair off too.
What you gettin' ready
to do, join the marines?
- Maybe.
- What you
doin' up so early?
- It's my birthday.
Don't you remember?
- I got Ma's pills, they're
in there on the kitchen table.
I want you to take
'em over to her.
- You do it.
- I'm collecting, I can't do it.
- It's my birthday,
I just wanna chill.
- Chill, chill, wanna go
hang out with that river rat.
- Ain't nothin'
wrong with him.
- Yeah, except
he's a drug addict.
- He just
smokes a little.
- Lives on that
raft, the roof leaks,
he thinks it's funny,
you think it's funny.
You just wanna go hang
out there and smoke weed.
Take them pills to your grandma.
Don't you think
she deserves that?
- Oh, why, 'cause I
killed her only daughter?
- Don't you ever say that again.
- It's true!
- You gotta grow
up and be a man.
You'll never get in
the Navy like this.
- A man?
This is what a man does,
just make stupid shit
out of driftwood?
Why don't you fix
the fucking house?
- This is what I
do for a living.
This is how I put food
on the table, son!
- Fuckin' barely.
- Get outta here, go take
those to your grandma.
- After I eat.
- You're still under my roof
and you do what I
say long as you are.
- Yeah, whatever.
Hey, Archie.
You're a good boy,
Archie, good boy.
It's my birthday today, Archie.
It's gonna suck.
Due time, Archie, due time.
Yo, Blaze!
- Hey man, mornin'!
Get on in here.
- Appreciate that, man.
- Hey buddy, how you doin'?
- Good day again.
- Wanna smoke?
- It's my birthday,
what do you think?
- Wake and
bake, baby boy.
That's how we do it.
Lookin' for some coffee?
- Yes please.
- All right, man.
I love me some weed
and coffee, man.
They even each other out.
Enjoy.
- Check that, some of
that out right there, man.
Tell me what you think.
- Yeah.
Mm.
- That right there got
the trichomes on it
with, you know, it's
straight medicinal
where gon', you gonna
get a couple of,
couple of head
rushes after that,
after that second
hit, know what I mean?
Local and organic.
Check that out man.
- I gotta
patch up at Snow's cut.
- Man, I gotta move.
- Tell me about, man.
Daddy diff real gettin' ya down?
- Yeah, seems like
every little thing
set him off these days.
- Well, it's
your birthday, man.
He's probably sad, you know?
- How do you think I feel?
- He's an artist, man.
They get kinda sensitive.
But I like his art, it's
better than makin' meth.
- Hey, check this out.
Got a whole box of these at a
yard sale down in Seabreeze.
- Yeah, what is it?
- Collection of nature shit.
This one about some wolves.
- Man, I
got the munchies.
- I got, uh, cereal, man,
some cereal and soda.
- Yeah, I'll take some.
- All right.
- You been back
to the old spot yet?
- Nah man,
place abandoned.
I ain't been down
there in three years,
since my ma got locked up.
- Oughta go
back down there though
and find some things
I left behind.
- But I like it here.
Livin' off the grid.
- Has developed.
The elk that have
the most reproductive
potential for the herd.
In other words, the wolves
were killing the animals
that were most vulnerable.
Now, we've also found
that the elk population
has been declining
since around the time
of wolf reinduction.
- Man, can you believe it?
- Is why.
- 18 and still
ain't done it yet.
- If you start lookin'
for babes in the woods,
maybe you find one.
- In
due committee time.
We've been in the grips
of each section here
and the droughts.
We found that that's
had big impact.
We've also had human
hunting pressure
on elk that migrate
outside the park.
And we also have the one of the
largest suites of carnivores
in any place in North America.
Grizzly bears,
black bears, coyote.
- Oh, I gotta get
goin' to Gram's.
She's waitin'.
- Word?
Hey man, take her some
of these herbs for me.
- If we wanna put--
- It's good for her.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, send her
some of my love, man.
- I appreciate that, man.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Tall tales of
what they think will survive.
- Called him a river rat.
Ah, livin' that way
ain't so bad.
Probably better than
some old trailer park
full of bad memories.
River in, river out.
How 'bout some
fish for that fire?
- Hi.
- They're fresh, I caught
'em up river this morning.
- Sure.
- I'm Moss.
- Mary.
- That's my ma's name.
- Really?
May I?
- You sure?
I don't mind doin' the guttin'.
- Yeah.
- You got skills.
- Can you hand me
that stick over there.
- Yes, ma'am.
- Oh God, don't call me ma'am.
Makes me feel like an old lady.
- Oh please, you
ain't old by no means.
- Yeah, I'm older than you.
- Not much.
- I just turned 30.
How old are yoU?
- 18 today.
- Really?
Happy birthday.
- Finally ain't a kid no more.
- Once a kid, always a kid.
Nobody ever really grows up.
- How long y'all here for?
- Oh, it's just me.
I keep the two tents
'cause it's a little
less vulnerable looking.
- That's smart.
- I try.
- Where ya headed?
- I get up the East
Coast to New York.
I got a brother there.
- New York.
You got a long ways ahead a ya.
- Yeah, but I'm takin' my time.
I don't know, this
year I decided
this is my year to take
off from regular life.
- Regular life?
Yeah, this is about as
regular as it gets for me.
- Really?
You're from around here?
- Yeah, just back
through those woods.
Been here my whole life.
Was born on the island.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Well, it's really
beautiful here.
What brings you down river?
- Ah, for my gram's.
Takin' her these pills.
She's just around the bend.
About damn near raised me
'cause I never really had a mom.
- Oh.
Do you mind if I ask why not?
- Sure.
She died havin' me.
- Oh.
I'm sorry.
- But Pa raised me.
He tried to protect me, you
know, from the pain and all,
but you can't really
make up the difference
for a missin' mom.
Thank you.
- So, your dad, he
never remarried?
- Nope, says there's
only one woman for him.
Spends all his time
holed up in a shack
and just makin' all sorts
of shit from driftwood.
- Sounds pretty cool.
- You ever married?
- Once.
But it was short-lived.
- Huh.
- He had an affair.
- If I was ever married to you,
I'd treat you like a queen.
- Thanks.
- I mean it.
- Oh God.
- Hey, you smoke?
- Well, yeah, what else is
there to do in these woods?
- You got papers?
- No, but you know
what, I have an apple.
- An apple?
- I'll make us an apple bong.
- Apple bong, ain't
never heard of such a thing.
- Really?
- Yah.
- I'll show ya, come on.
You sure are good lookin', Moss.
- Yeah?
Ain't done me much good so far.
- Come on, you don't
have a girlfriend?
Ooh.
- Nah, I never really tried.
- That is super fresh.
- My man, Blaze grows it
and sells it down by
the river in the summer.
- Well, that right there is
a friend to keep.
- He lives on a raft.
He's off the grid,
you could say.
- That
sounds like my hero.
- Yeah, there's a
lotta that around here.
Like my grandma, she ain't
never had a bank account.
She keeps all her money in a
paint can back by the shed.
Don't have anything good
to say about the system.
Wanna go for a swing?
- A swing?
- Yeah,
it's just up there.
- Wow.
It's gorgeous up here.
- Been comin'
here since I was a tot.
My pop put this swing here.
- No way.
Geez, I haven't been
on one of these,
I don't know how long.
Go on, it's your turn.
- Nah.
- Come on, try it.
What, grown men
don't go on swings?
Let's go.
- All right then.
Yeah?
- Do you think
it'll still hold me?
- I don't know, we'll see.
Ride it, cowboy.
Hey, you ever done
shrooms before?
- Nope.
- Really?
- There's a lotta
things I ain't done yet.
- Well, there's a first
time for everything.
Wanna try 'em with me?
- What happen?
- Oh, it's a bit
different every time,
but the first time I did it,
it felt like all these walls
inside of me just evaporated.
Very therapeutic.
- Well, how long does it last?
- We start now, it'll
be done by sundown.
Believe me, you don't think
about time on these things.
Happy birthday.
Warning, tastes like shit.
- Meet ya
on the other side.
- Hey!
- What say, Blaze, how
you doin', brother?
- Buddy,
what's goin' on, man?
- Ah, just sale old, same old.
- That, and grab me a Reese's.
And pop, yeah.
Yeah, man.
- Snack time.
- I don't need
a bag, no, no bags.
- No bags, okay.
4.28.
- That's $5, man.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Thank you, Blaze.
- Yeah.
- Appreciate it.
- All right.
- Have a
good and enjoy 'em.
- All right, man.
- Come on
back now, take care.
- Enjoy the fish.
- Oh!
- Nobody ever really grows up.
Nobody ever really grows up.
She's right.
You just get set in
your ways, that's all.
I can see it now,
what's inside me.
I'm buried.
And she's pullin' it out,
pullin' it out, like a wishbone.
And she's got one side
and I got the other.
And we could be
so good together.
That's my dad, he
can't see me like this.
- What's he doin'?
- He's gatherin'
wood for his art.
- That's cool.
- I shouldn't
a said that to him.
That's all he's
got, his art and me.
All these years, pilin' up
wood between us and the past,
that's what he's been doin',
makin' somethin' out of it.
- Hey.
You guys have a bond
that can never be broken.
- You say the best things.
- Yeah.
I try to tell the
truth sometimes.
We should go to the beach.
♪ When the sun
rose this mornin' ♪
♪ And I was up with the light
♪ Smilin' and shakin' my pain
♪ Got thinkin'
about last night ♪
♪ You took my arms
under the stars ♪
- Hm.
♪ And I spun you around
♪ And when you drove off
- Yes.
♪ I just stood there
fixin' to skip town ♪
♪ Sister blue, sister blue
♪ And I walked
- Shoot.
♪ More with you
♪ Sister blue
- A lotta damage.
♪ Sister blue
♪ I just wanna keep
on lookin' at you ♪
♪ I might just have to
interrupt you again ♪
♪ Sweet lady covered in vain
♪ But my heart's
still wide open ♪
- Hm.
- Blaze will
never believe this shit.
She don't know what
she's doin' to me.
My insides just warm
like melted butter.
God, stay with me
a little longer.
Moss, just go for it.
- Hey Buddy.
- Hey,
how ya doin', Ray?
How you gettin' along, good?
- Doin' well, doin' well.
- Ain't seen ya--
- How 'bout yourself?
- In a long time, o'er here.
- Yes, it's been a
while, it's been a while.
My boy's got a birthday today.
- Right.
- And I'm lookin'
for a fishin'
reel, surf fishin'.
- Oh, right here.
We got a couple of 'em here,
but this one right here--
- Is that a Surfcaster?
- Yeah.
- That's what it is.
- Well, you surf or use it
on the pier, either one.
- Oh yeah, that'll work.
Let's see how much it be at.
We got, we got 35.99 on it,
but since I've been knowin' ya
a long time, how's 30 bucks?
- You got a deal.
- All right, good
deal, good deal.
- Thank you, man.
- All right, here, hold--
- Can I ask you a favor?
- Hold this one here, right.
- Do you happen to
have any kind of paper?
- Yeah, I got some fish
wrappin', wrappin' paper.
- Yeah, anything, that'll work.
That'll work.
- That'll work?
- Okay, good.
- Yeah, man, I appreciate it.
All right, just get about
that big right there, Buddy.
- Yup, got
ya right there.
- Okay.
- Are you still, uh, doin'
them uh, wood carvings?
- The sculptures, yes.
- Yeah, yeah, that's it.
- I see you got a wall right
there where I could put one.
- Yeah, sure,
I don't see why not.
You want me to put it for sale?
- Yes sir, that'll
do me just fine.
I can always use
an extra dollar.
- I know that's
right, I hear all that.
- Well, all right then.
Do you happen to have a box
you can put it in for me?
- Yeah, we got a box
for ya right here.
- Hey, that works.
- We'll fix ya right up.
How's your boy doin'?
- He's doin' good, he's
in and out like a cat.
- Right, I mean,
that's them young ones,
you know how they
are, ball of fire.
- Yeah, we
both been there, man.
- Yeah, I know that's right.
- You know how it was
when we was that age.
- Oh yeah, oh yeah,
that's how it is.
Okay.
You got that one there.
- Mm-hmm.
- Appreciate that.
- All right, all right,
thank you very much.
- Yeah, tell him I
said happy birthday.
- Will do, thanks a lot.
- Take care, man.
- All right, come on in.
- Thank you, sir.
- How you doin' today?
- Good, how you doin'?
- Great.
- Hey!
- How you all doin'?
- How you doin', Blaze?
- That stuff's hella
long in there, man.
- It's good to see you.
- Good to see you, man.
Good to see you.
- Hey, I've got that new
blueberry blue, blue booty.
- All right, man.
- Blurry.
Blurry, know what I mean?
- All right.
- Hit it.
- Check it out.
For you.
What y'all lookin'
for, a 20, 40?
- I think just 20.
- 20.
- 20?
- Yeah, home grown?
- All right.
It's definitely the most
organic stuff on the market.
You'll not find
that anywhere else.
- That's good stuff,
we'll take it.
- Hey man, make sure
you let everybody,
you know, you're little--
- Send 'em your way.
Your way.
- Yeah, we'll send 'em your way.
- Yeah man, you
know where I'm at.
- Absolutely.
- You know?
- Appreciate it.
- Catch me on the river, man.
- Will do.
- All right.
What's goin' on with the place?
What?
The door's open?
Aw man, this is a dump in here.
I should sell this stuff
at a yard sale, nice.
Somethin' stink.
Was it worth it, Mom?
Lose your baby girl
and me for a drug.
Aw, man.
Ah.
There it is, memories.
Good old memories.
Got that.
Ain't never comin' back here.
- I think
I'm coming down.
- Really?
Still feelin' kinda buzzy.
- I definitely got a
higher tolerance than you.
- It's been the
best day of my life.
- Yeah, I gotta get goin'
before it starts
gettin' dark, ya know?
- You don't
wanna watch the sunset?
- I just
need to be alone.
- So what, I'm never
gonna see you again?
- Come by in the
morning for breakfast.
- You have
a collect call from--
- It's mom.
- An
inmate at New Hanover,
a North Carolina
correctional facility.
To accept the charges for
this call, press three.
- Baby.
- Hey Ma.
- Oh, my baby, you okay?
- Yup.
- You got that, that
solar panel working yet?
- You know I'm
good with my hands, Ma.
- But guess what,
it ain't gonna keep
you warm this winter.
- I'm
chasin' summer, Ma.
I'm goin' down the river soon.
- They still ain't
rented the old spot?
- Nah, just like we
left it the last time I checked.
- Mm, maybe you oughta
go check on our stuff then.
- It's just stuff.
- This call will
be terminated in 10 seconds.
- I'll try to pass by.
When can I go see baby sis?
- They said maybe
when she's a little older.
I can't do nothin', baby.
She's in the system,
I'm in the system.
I'm so sorry.
I love you so much, I'll call
you same time next week, okay?
- This call is
being terminated, thank you.
- Moss!
Moss!
- Man, she
was down by the river
like out of a
dream or somethin'.
- She was a goddess, man.
Her eyes were like blue moons.
- Man, stop
fuckin' with me, man.
Yo, this whiskey
smells like cow piss.
- I found this
one at a, at a yard sale.
- Who the hell sells
whiskey at a yard sale?
- Man, if you ain't know, man,
that's when people sell
whiskey at a yard sale, man.
- If they
aren't calling a mate,
why are they singing?
- What's her name?
- Mary.
- Mary, like your mom?
- I didn't really get
to know her too well, man.
- Hm, that's crazy.
- For centuries.
Scientists may one
day find out from--
- Best day of my life, dude.
- Spawning
voices of the sea.
For now, the private life
of these big giants remains.
- Hi, how are you?
- Great, great,
how you doin' tonight?
- What can
I get for you today?
- Um, I'd like
the bologna sandwich
and the fried okra.
- You want anything
on your bologna sandwich?
- Uh, mustard.
- Do you want
that on white bread?
- Yes, on white bread.
And could make that a double
order and make one 'em to,
one of 'em to go?
- Mm-hmm.
- And a Pepsi or Coke.
- All right, you
have seat wherever you like,
and I'll bring it out to you.
- All right, thank you.
- Order.
Here you go.
- All right.
- Your food'll be right up--
- Thanks.
- In just a few minutes.
- Ma!
Ma.
Sorry it took me so long, Ma.
Got your pills.
Ma?
Ma?
She keeps all of her
money in a paint can,
right by the shed.
- The
big storm is the cue
for the this important
time of this frog's life.
It's a male in search of a mate.
- Hey, bud.
Any luck?
- Couple a bites.
I'm a headin' in soon.
- Well, do you
mind if I join you?
- Sure.
- Thanks.
- It's like she was
never even here.
Like Mom.
Just some kinda dream.
Let it go.
Let it all go.
Dad?
You're a free man.
Thanks for the reel.
- You're welcome, son.
- Dad.
- Yeah.
- Ma passed.
I got there too late, Dad.
- It don't really
matter now, son.
- Her paint can was empty.
- I moved that last week.
- You moved her loot?
- She asked me to.
She wanted me to take
care of it for ya.
- She seemed at peace.
- Well, at least she's
not in pain anymore.
Fish a little
longer with me, son,
and we'll go take care of her.
We just gotta let her go.
- Sometimes,
the tide is rage,
and sometimes,
she's just so still.
She takes it where she wants to.
Either yesterday's
memories or tomorrow's,
it don't matter.
On the river in the morning,
the shore's always new.