Br'er Cotton

Lynchburg Virginia. The former site of a thriving cotton mill is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by all the recent killings of young black men like himself Ruffrino a 14-year-old militant incites riots at school and online. As Ruffrino grows more and more at odds with his mother and grandfather his anger builds beyond containment. Meanwhile the family home literally sinks into the cotton field and no one but Ruffrino seems to notice.