Promised Land

Ethan Wildwood lives in his own world, midway between reality and dream. Escaping Los Angeles and an actor’s life full of hardship and failure, he is given the task of shooting short on-the-road stories by a documentary producer friend. Driving his strange self-promoting car and equipped with a small video camera, he tells the story of his trip and his encounters with ordinary people in the vast American countryside. Until one day when he meets Vicky, a singer traveling from place to place searching for her daughter Mary Jane, who disappeard under mysterious circumstances ten years earlier. Ethan intrigued by the story starts his own personal investigation which will lead him to discover hidden and unexpected truths… —swissfilms.ch