Brash and belligerent yet strangely charming, Everett (Brian Whitaker) straddles the line between Southern gentleman and white-trash philosopher. A drink in one hand and an apology in the other, he’s the neighbor who crashes into Adam’s carefully curated world like a headline come to life. But beneath the bluster and bourbon lies a man desperate for redemption — a man who’ll have to face the tragedy that drove him to drink if he ever hopes to be the friend, and the man, he once was.

“Woke” is a badge of honor for this devoted husband and earnest screenwriter who prides himself on making every story diverse and inclusive. Always putting others first — in art and in marriage — Adam (Matt Fowler) has spent years erasing himself to make space for everyone else. It takes the stillness of quarantine for him to start writing the cowboy he secretly wishes he were. But when his home comes under attack, Adam is forced to live out his own fiction — fleeing into a world he thought he only understood from headlines.