Palm Trees and Power Lines

When teenage Lea meets a much older man, he seems to be the solution to all of her problems. But things are not as she thinks.

Seventeen-year-old Lea doesn’t really feel at home anywhere. Not with her mother and not in her circle of friends. She’s bored stiff by the monotony of day-to-day life in the small town she lives in. Then she meets Tom. He’s handsome and sensitive and makes her feel special. The only thing is: he’s twice her age. But Lea pushes all doubts aside and is pulled deeper and deeper into a treacherous cycle of apparent closeness and emotional manipulation.

›Palm Trees and Power Lines‹ is a stirring drama about the hopes and disappointments of a teenage girl. Told with great narrative calm and clarity, full of affection and understanding for its magnificently portrayed protagonist. And at the same time, the film is much more: a convincing portrait of a landscape of the American mind.

Director