The last hillbilly

In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. They don’t always recognize the authority of the US-government. Some of them don’t pay their taxes, even if it means doing without running water or electricity.

Over time, the inhabitants of this area of the « white rural America » have seen an explosive mix made of economic decline, ecological disaster, and social violence, develop.

In the US they’re often called « hillbillies ». An insult some of them use to define themselves, almost as a provocation.

A portrait of a hillbilly family through the words of one of their own, this film combines documentary observation and a surprising interior world, witnessing a world on the verge of disappearing.