Mari Stamper

Forever in Black Hills

On his way to spend the summer in sunny Florida, straight-laced Cincinnati schoolteacher Joe Herald (Philip Neace) makes a pit stop in his Eastern Kentucky hometown. But when he reunites with his redneck brother (first-time actor Michael Shouse, the brother of writer-director Charles Shouse) and gets pulled into a drama involving drugs and an untapped coal mine, a brief visit turns into a much longer stay.