Cook County

Abe is seventeen years old. He lives in a small town. The house he lives in is full of people using crystal meth. Abe is trying to get clear of that addiction himself. At the same time he has to protect himself. He has to protect his young niece too. The threat comes from his uncle Bump. Bump is violent in the house. Then Abe’s father Sonny comes home from prison. Sonny wants to put things right with his son. But Bump means to keep his own arrangement going. Father and son have to make their way through those dangerous waters. Anson Mount and Xander Berkeley take the leads, with Ryan Donowho and Makenna Fitzsimmons also in the cast, in David Pomes’s American film of 2009.