dark and stormy in a desert

A lone traveler experiences a night of terror while trapped in a vast desert.

Stranded on a desolate road, a man ventures into the unforgiving desert in search of help. As the scorching heat and relentless thirst take their toll, he begins to see mirages that blur the line between illusion and reality. The desert, like a living, breathing force, twists his perception, drawing him deeper into a maze of illusions that feel hauntingly real. As he fights to maintain his grip on reality, he realizes that the true danger may not be the desert itself, but the shadows it casts within his mind.

The desert is often mobilised in science fiction films to simulate worlds ravaged by resource depletion and climate change or outer worlds hostile to life. A visual filter applied to the landscape intensifies the conventional perception of the desert, accentuates that technological representation of nature and nature itself are inseparable from man-made transformation. Ghostly entanglement of deep time, unsettling present and imagined future haunt the landscape, the film unfolds into a bizarre interplanetary journey that oscillates between documentary and climate fiction, nature and artificial, life and non-life.

At a highway gas station/motel/diner where they live, two young brothers witness their parents murder. The younger brother is blinded in the same incident. Ten years later both brothers are still there and the tragedy may have turned one of them psychotic. When the abusive Gladstone and his young and sexy wife are stranded at the gas station it brings out the worst in everyone.

Modern-day ramblers tumble through the desert and into trouble.

A sojourner wanders the stars in search of a lost treasure rumored to harness the power of eternal life.