Sam Was Here
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A paranoid, surreal desert thriller that blends 1990s Americana with cosmic dread and identity dissolution.
California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.
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