Brutal Season

It’s the summer of 1948 in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The crime rate is rising as quickly as the temperature, and both hang oppressively in the air. The Trouths, a family with no source of income, have little more entertainment than to look out the window of their kitchen towards the harbour. That is, until their estranged oldest son inexplicably returns home after a 12 year disappearance. The apartment is full again, but is it big enough for the gambling debts, alcohol abuse, and rather substantial life insurance policy that comes in their son’s wake? Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope meets Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in the study of a family’s boiling dynamic.