A trooper stops a man who is seemingly on the run away from something that recently took place. He stops by the side of the road. He is later awoken by a State Trooper asking about his intentions. Most interesting is Mann seems to have something in his backseat that he is afraid of being uncovered. The short story soon became a short film of this very traffic stop. Yet for the year after the completion of the film it became common topic of discussion;
"What the hell could he have had in the back seat of that car?"
By summer 2012 Jase Egan and Adam Engel had built an entire story around this figure. It became a full length character study focusing on 4 separate people and their behavior as The Wounded Bird
enters their town.
Directed by Adam Engel
Written by Jase Egan
2012