Why Did the Bluesman Cross the Road?
Qumra Projects
/ TV Series / United States of America, Lebanon, Qatar
Rated: This film has not been rated.
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Synopsis
At a car dealership in Santa Monica, California, Ernesto and Jamal are hardworking mechanics by day and aspiring musicians by night. Their music binds them closer than brothers, in a dream beyond the oil and grease. Meanwhile, Ernesto and the boss’s daughter Virginia are secretly madly in love. When her father learns his mechanic got her pregnant, he sends a crooked cop to set things straight, but the struggle turns violent, leaving the cop with a bullet in his gut and the trio of Ernesto, Jamal, and Virginia on the run. They end up halfway across the country in Dearborn, Michigan, the Arab-American capital of the United States. Big fish in a small pond, the trio’s desires seem tantalizingly within reach. However, under Dearborn’s manicured lawns and tight Arab community lie an economic recession, an opioid crisis, and a militia of white supremacists. And sooner than they expect, the mess the trio left behind comes back to haunt them, turning their American Dream into their darkest nightmare. ‘Why Did the Bluesman Cross the Road?’ is a horror musical melodrama that explores the social and psychological struggles of the immigrant artist in a deeply divided America in search of its own identity.