A Tree Born Crooked

Thirty-six year old James Hart has a tough-as-nails exterior and an aching emptiness inside. The only one in his family to leave his stagnant birthplace in Crystal Springs behind, James is filled with a burning spark of restlessness and anger that keeps him roaming from one trailer park and temporary job to another. Out of the blue, James gets an unsigned postcard from his mother, Birdie Mae, informing him of his father's death. Left with no choice, James finally heads home to Florida and to a collapsed rural town running on the fumes of the occasional interstate tourists speeding through. It is a place where dreams are born to die. Here, James discovers that he is too late for his father's funeral, but just in time to learn of his younger brother, Rabbit's, new scam of stealing copper wire, trading it for Oxycodone pills, and then selling the drugs to the girls at the local strip club. The lone bright spot during James' return home is meeting the beautiful Marlena, who works in her father's bar called The Blue Diamond. At this local watering hole, James learns of Rabbit's newest easy money scheme, but is unable to convince Rabbit to curtail his plan which is doomed to fail. James is helpless as he watches Rabbit, high on Oxycodone, become part of a robbery-turned-murder. As if that isn't bad enough, it appears Rabbit is now being double-crossed by his partners in crime, one of whom may very well be Marlena's father, Waylon, who disappears. Throw in the Alligator Mafia, the local group of redneck gangsters, and Rabbit is soon on the run of his life with Marlena who wants find her father, and James, who wants to protect them both. Together, the three embark on a journey across the state hoping to find enough time to come up with a solution to their escalating tragedy. With the Alligator Mafia hot on their tracks, time and a lucky break are both in short supply.