Screen Siren Pictures Inc.

Clearcut is an erotically charged drama that navigates the uncharted sexual tension between two men and the woman who appears to want them both.

When rough-hewn loner Earley Ritter picks up a hitchhiker one rainy night, he can’t imagine how much it will change his life. A “shake-rat” who salvages cedar stumps left over from clearcut logging, Earley seems to have little in common with Reed Alton, a skinny Stanford university dropout. But when Earley meets Zan, the fiery and mysterious woman Reed has been following, erotic sparks fly in unexpected directions. Thrown together in the splendid isolation of the woods, with passions and tensions mounting, the unlikely trio achieves a fragile balance that – like their idyllic patch of forest – will force a choice.

Using the metaphor of the forestry industry, with its own self-imposed blindness, Earley’s story is of a man who meets the nature of his own desire face to face. In the end, it is only through the intervention and sacrifice of a woman that he can accept the love of another man. At once a psychological drama and a colourful exploration of an unspoken intimacy, Clearcut explores the boundaries that divide us, and what it takes to cross them.