Ties to Rachel
Writer-director Jon Resnik's debut feature is set in a small, secluded New England town, where an elusive young woman named Rachel (Arija Bareikas) has disappeared... but not before leaving her mark on those whose lives she touched. Told in three interwoven stories, the film focuses on an itinerant boxer (Adrian Pasdar) whose love for Rachel is unrequited, Bucyrus (George Dickerson), who believes Rachel is the reincarnation of his dead wife, and a gay minister, Deke (Joanna Adler), who plots with a local shopkeeper to get revenge on the townspeople for hounding her out of the ministry. Mixing humor and emotional depth, Ties to Rachel explores the complexities of love, loss and desire.