Austin Taylor

A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.

Suffocated by debt, JJ, a young white trash woman from the United States, escapes from Los Angeles to Baja California, Mexico, in search of an old lover to save her from her tumultuous existence. She is accompanied by Esmeralda, a 14-year-old Mexican teenager who runs away from home and offers her a tempting sum of money if she agrees to take her to see her father. Always with the threat of being discovered, they embark on an adventure through the desert in which JJ's bad decisions will complicate things more and more; But, along the way, a special relationship will emerge between the two.

In this quirky re-telling of the Grimm Brothers classic, Hansel and Gretel, two white trash children escape the clutches of their abusive stepfather and into the hands of a devious witch and her demonic bakery in post-Katrina New Orleans. Pilot episode for the Bruno Zipes "Storytime" series!