Earl Mendoza

Earl Mendoza lives a quiet life in a weather-beaten trailer park in Bakersfield and works as a mortuary technician, performing the precise and somber ritual of preparing bodies. His days are filled with small, meticulous tasks and the pervasive, stark contrast between the silence of the dead and the mundane hustle of his job. He carries the burden of an enigmatic past event—a night he drove his car into a lake, leaving lingering questions he refuses to answer, which sits alongside his nightly worry whether his old trailer will hold up through another harsh winter.