You're an Animal

<b>A tender portrait of four misfits on the run across Texas that speaks to those who are left out those who opt out&#151;and to the wild animal in us all<br><br>&#147;Libaire creates a delicious universe at a constant brink of collapse a universe I never wanted to see end.&#148;&#151;Gerardo S&#225;mano C&#243;rdova author of <i>Monstrilio</i></b><br><br>It&#146;s springtime in Oklahoma and Ernie an outcast in a group of outcasts feels uneasy. Nerves at the abandoned summer camp where he and his fellow oddballs are crashing have been on edge since the arrival of a teenager named Coral unceremoniously dropped off from her family&#146;s minivan one afternoon. Adding to her aura of mystery Coral doesn&#146;t say a word. Ever.<br><br>When a drug lab explosion burns the compound to the ground Ernie Coral and the hard-living couple Staci and Ray escape on a pair of motorcycles. Feeling shaky with fear and alive with a new surge of freedom the four outcasts find a rundown house in rural Texas: It's a place to stay they tell themselves for now. Yet to their surprise over card games and wild strawberries and target-shooting and late-night dancing to ZZ Top on the local radio a quirky little family forms. At the heart of their new home is Coral whose silence only amplifies her strange undefinable power and the sense that she found them for a reason.<br><br>But soon tensions rise and a mysterious threat begins to materialize&#151;whether it&#146;s coming from inside or outside the house still isn&#146;t clear. All this crew knows is now there&#146;s something at stake: their chosen family forged by both loneliness and joy and bonded by an awkward kind of love.