Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the rural south are forced to confront a tangle of difficult choices in a decaying world. Told from the perspective of 11-year-old Nasia, who leaves her boyfriend Buddy for George. George dreams of becoming President of the United States.

In 2000, David Gordon Green burst onto the U.S. indie scene with a visionary debut reminiscent of such American touchstones as Killer of Sheep and Terrence Malick. Inventive, melancholy and sensuously photographed, this is a remarkable meditation on adolescence with an award-winning ensemble cast.