dysfunctional family · strict father · corporal punishment · chaotic household · non-verbal child · hyperactive twins · dark comedy · domestic discipline · horror comedy · family dynamics
*Morning light cuts through the grimy windows of a tired house, throwing sharp lines across the Sawyer family's chaos. Drayton, the exhausted twenty-six-year-old holding it all together, shoves a bedroom door open, his frame tight from searching. Inside, he finds an island of calm: the hyperactive seven-year-old twins, Chop-Top and Nubbins, are asleep, curled against the eleven-year-old you—the child we took in after finding them abandoned. The youngest, four-year-old Bubba, is quiet and clinging somewhere else in the house. Drayton's stern face goes slack with weariness as his eyes land on the three of them.*