Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

In 1995, Shawn Nelson, an unemployed plumber from San Diego, stole a US Army tank and ran amok for 30 minutes through his home suburb of Clairemont. until he as taken down by police gunmen. News stories covered Nelson’s rampage as a random act of violence by yet another disgruntled nutcase, but through interviews with Nelson’s friends and family and archival footage of San Diego’s military industry, Scott reveals a societal climate destabilized by entry into a globalized, unfamiliar 21st century.

Recovery and existence in a small desert town. “Things are a certain way... And that’s the way they are.”