2024 Digital Program - Flipbook - Page 20
Saturday 10AM Fiction Shorts
The Heart of Texas
Janie May, an aspiring country singer
stuck in the paycheck-to-paycheck grind,
gets big news that she’s a radio contest
finalist while finishing her overnight shift at
a local diner in Waco, TX. She must race
to the station to sing for hometown
country music hero Harlan Thompson in
hopes of winning the opening act spot on
his upcoming tour. In a chaotic dash to
the studio, she collides her car into Jesús,
an undocumented worker who refuses
medical care or police assistance out of fear of being discovered
and deported. The two engage in a struggle, each in pursuit of
their own American dreams. In the end, they do the only thing
they know how to do: fend for themselves.
