Story Line
THEY RESCUE HORSES, DON’T THEY? is a dramatic short film about decisions, good and bad, and how we still have choices even in the aftermath of a bad decision.
Aubrey, a teenage girl whose mother died years ago of an overdose, lives in the small town milieu of opioid abuse and frequent overdoses. Her school has even trained the students how to administer nasal Naloxone to reverse the effects of opioid overdose. Aubrey’s a kid with a loving father, raised around horses and dogs, a kid involved in horse rescue fundraising efforts, a kid afraid of drugs and their dangerous possibilities. Her bff Nikki is not so aware, distracted by social media, and not so cautious. We follow the girls on a single fateful day in the summer when they both must face the consequences of choices they make.