Hailed as William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks and Sun Records rockabilly, author Barry Gifford has given the world more than forty works, including the novel that inspired David Lynch's WILD AT HEART. Featuring Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon, the film brings to life Gifford's autobiographical collection of stories, capturing a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word.