A drunken relative who is a Vietnam Vet disrupts the mourning for a family member who died unexpectedly in his sleep by crashing his car into a tree in the front yard of the home.

SYNOPSIS:

A young man returns to the small rural southern community of his birth to attend the funeral of a favorite uncle who raised him as a child after his parents were killed in an automobile accident and has died unexpectedly. The solemn mourning at the home of the deceased is interrupted by the raucous arrival of a drunken relative who wrecks his car in the front yard. After the dust settles, literally and figuratively, the young man learns of the origins of the inebriated driver's demons from the elder brother of the deceased.

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