Gus (Ruff Yeager), Otto (Matt Scott) and Harry (Tom Hall) have made it to their 40s, apparently without work and despite an alcoholic father who made them memorize “Hamlet” by the time they were nine, a drug-addled mother who took Harry and left early on, and the self-imposed isolation of their living conditions.
Gus and Otto subsist in a grimy, decaying trailer somewhere in the Canadian North Woods, where they drink, early and often. Gus has been blinded, presumably by his own hand; now he sits in a ratty armchair and paints, the canvases and colors prepared by Otto.