As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers–whose addiction to ICE and lack of job opportunities have landed them in an endless cycle of poverty and incarceration–are caught in the middle.
Direction
Renaud brothers embed where journalists fear to tread.
Editing
No narrator—just voices the system ignores.
Director
Brent Renaud
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Renaud brothers filmed for three years in Arkansas, gaining trust by living in the same trailer parks as subjects.
Released before Trump's opioid emergency declaration, it predicted how rural addiction would become political theater without policy follow-through.
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