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A sweeping tale of desire and the American Dream -- DEVIL'S HOLE follows three ranching families and their interwoven stories: a patriarchal clan of cowboys, a broken family of outcasts, and those just trying to scrape by. The only things out in the desert are sand, legal brothels, and... endangered fish? When teenager Shan moves with her downtrodden family to a small community nestled in the California/Nevada desert, her dream of reinventing herself becomes reality. But danger looms on the horizon -- the impetuous cowboy Jaxon Dunmire has a family legacy to uphold, and he will do whatever is necessary to secure his future. As Shan navigates her new-found freedom, she finds herself the center of a legal dispute that will uncover generations of horrors brushed deep below the desert sands. Ultimately, DEVIL'S HOLE is an offbeat, darkly comedic tale about desire and the ways we struggle for dreams always out of reach. DEVIL'S HOLE is a story of identity, of finding oneself in an ever-changing world. It's an examination of justice -- who receives it, who dishes it out, and who's punished. War looms on the horizon, and the foundation of civilization itself is primed to crumble. Out in the desert, the law bends in the name of frontier justice... 

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