AWOL

Drama, Romance · 2017Not Rated

Lola Kirke (MOZART IN THE JUNGLE, MISTRESS AMERICA) shines as Joey, an aimless high school graduate searching for a way out of Pennsylvania coal country. A visit to an Army recruiting office appears to provide a path. However, a chance encounter with magnetic Rayna (UNREAL’s Breeda Wool), a slyly seductive housewife and mother neglected by her long-haul trucker husband, changes Joey’s trajectory irrevocably. As Joey falls more in love with Rayna, clouded judgment leads her down a path she can’t turn back from. With powerful performances from Kirke and Wool, director Deb Shoval’s feature film debut is a splendid and brooding meditation on the boundless possibilities of first love constricted by the trials of rural poverty.

Starring

Lola Kirke, Gingger Shankar, Breeda Wool, Adrienne Stern, Dale Soules, Jeffrey Wolf, Ted Welch, Rose Troche, Maryam Keshavarz, Britne Oldford

Director

Deb Shoval