Inches from America

"With tragedy and pain beaming at me from the TV, I stood there flossing my teeth and spitting into the sink. Nothing shocked me. Nothing moved me to tears or to anger. Nothing moved me to prayer, repetition or holy nationalism. I simply watched." As the ashes of the Twin Towers rise into the Manhattan skyline, cynical university student Markus Dumont sits coldly in front of his television. A Canadian, living in small town America, he soon becomes disgusted with the vulgar displays of patriotism he sees all around him, and decides to take action. Told from the perspective of a dead man, Inches From America is a darkly humorous examination of a young man filled with hatred and derision for everyone around him. It is the story of a metamorphosis, not just of one person but of an entire world; a genre-bending existential mystery that paints a gripping portrait of the struggle to maintain individuality in a country united in tragedy and begging for conformity.