Broke Sky
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The Story

You ever wonder what you don’t know about your best friend?

This noir comedy is set deep in the heart of Texas during the hottest summer on record. Bucky Click and Earl Boggs are two small town best friends who work for the county in the carcass removal division. They spend their days scooping up roadkill and dead farm animals left for the buzzards. Bucky, a sensitive, soulful fellow is happily married to Becky, the love of his life. Earl, a cynical aging bachelor, is living fast while allowing Bucky to do most of the hard work. Their lives are routine and uneventful until progress and technology finally catches up with their county in the form of a mechanical marvel of Carcass Removal Technology truck. The new truck, as
exciting as it may seem, is bad news. It means down-sizing and the task of determining which man will need to go is left for them to figure out. Earl, the older of the two, is not about to lay down 20 years of hard work to technology. He's determined to save both their jobs. He Persuades Bucky to help him outsmart the higher-ups by moonlight in the neighboring county where the new technology has already been introduced. Earl's logic, flawed as it may be, is to reduce the number of roadkill for the neighbor, making him look inefficient, therefore getting the powers that be to rethink the purchase of the expensive equipment. Bucky is not so sure about the plan, but has faith in his best friend, and agrees to give the plan a try.

The late night pickups seem to be working, until, to their shock, they discover the body of a hitchhiker they had picked up a few days earlier, stashed in a well belonging to Rufus, the most hated man in town. Bucky is
ready to call the Sheriff, but Earl refuses, fearing that a lynch mob will descend on Rufus and put an end to him. He insists that they hide the body in the county dead animal pit where no one will ever find it. Bucky is confused and becomes suspicious of Earl's motives in protecting Rufus. When no amount of reasoning brings Bucky around, Earl reveals that Rufus, the despicable old man he's trying to protect, is actually the father Bucky never knew. The decision is settled and Bucky goes along with his friend's plan once again. They dispose of the body in the festering pit and vow to take the night's secret to their graves. Or so they think. Bucky can't reconcile the hideous act and knows that the vile pit is no resting place for a human being, The increasing guilt weighing on his heart and the nagging questions about his own identity start to hover over him like a flock of buzzards. Bucky begins to fall apart and finds himself torn between his love for his wife, his allegiance to his best friend, and his own conscience. When, against Earl's wishes, he starts to delve into his own hidden past, Earl begins to transform in ways Bucky has never seen. Soon they both find themselves entangled in a world of secrets and disturbing past that are best
left unanswered. Ultimately, Broke Sky is a dark, quirky and unexpected journey along the winding road toward an unusual redemption.



 

 

 

 

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