Thicket

18yearold Elliot lives and works on a small familyowned New Zealand dairy farm He meanders out at dawn towards a herd of feeding cows where his attempt to take the wheel for the mornings feedout run is quickly overruled by his overbearing father Elliots resentment grows with his increasingly apparent lack of autonomy and respect on the farm A routine grocery trip sees Elliot bump into Laura an enigmatic checkout operator and love interest who pockets Elliot a pouch of tobacco on the sly directing him to collect her later on that afternoon