Kevin Willmott

Seriocomic look at African-American life on Ninth Street in Junction City, Kansas in 1968. Once booming "Jump City" has fallen on hard times, though the Vietnam War insures a steady stream of draftees from nearby Fort Riley to patronize Ninth Street's black-owned jazz clubs, bars, and businesses. Ninth Street is home to drunks and priests, club owners and pimps, hookers and cabbies. Holding court over this mix are two resident winos, Bebo and Huddie,...

Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teenage boy from the Kickapoo tribe is taken from his family and forced to attend a boarding school for native Americans. He resists the attempt to assimilate him into white society and escapes to return to his family. A bounty hunter of Cherokee descent is hired to find and return him to the institution. Along the way, an incident spurs the bounty hunter's longtime nemesis to pursue the hunter and the teenage...