Nocturne Variations

Los Angeles December 1989 is when we first meet the seventeen-year-old Piers a runaway and a savant puppeteer. Addicted to Sike an experimental drug which promises a surrogate return to Childhood Piers in an act of revenge robs a briefcase full of Sike from her dealer and flees L.A. pursued by two hit men. Hiding out in the Southwestern town of Redline where she meets and is taken in by a man named Henry Hook Piers is soon confronted by the buried trauma of her past. Comprising a jigsaw synthesis of narrative journal entries letters monologues film footage poems photographs and press clippings Nocturne renders an interior world of fragments and parallels and casts a tinted light on that neverland between dreaming and waking.