Dead River Rough Cut (2002)

Bob Wagg and Walter Lane live in a tarpaper shack hunting fishing trapping and logging with oxen They prefer the sounds of the birds to the roar of highway traffic and scorn the moneychasing of city life Covering a period of four seasons in the remote backwoods of Maine Dead River Rough Cut presents a revealing look at an individual way of life Wagg and Lane earn a living and accept their isolation for the independence it allows them But not everyone would want to draw water from a hole in the ice They share their reflections about women politics taxes the lone life and death