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.