Impasse

Down-on-his-luck Wendell is sitting on a bench in a small Texas Hill Country town. A biker drops off a little girl and tells Wendell she is his niece and that her mother, his sister, has died. Wendell takes the little girl, called Mouse, to the Twilight Inn, a rustic bed-and-breakfast run by four sisters, cousins to Wendell's former wife.

Mouse is taken in by the sisters and Wendell is hired as handyman. This event precipitates a break in the impasse – the logjam – in the emotional lives of the sisters, Wendell and Mouse herself.

The different personalities of the four sisters, Mouse and Wendell, are well-portrayed. The music by Jason Marion beautifully underpins the changing emotional states of the characters.

At 57 minutes, Impasse is the longest film to date by Hill Country-based filmmaker Rodger Marion. The Hill Country location of the bed-and-breakfast adds greatly to the contemplative and pensive nature of the film.