Set in the old west, a small and somewhat peaceful town sees a stranger walk straight down Main and into the sheriff’s office. Sheriff Jake (Ethan Hawke) hesitates only a moment before granting a warm greeting to his old friend Silva (Pedro Pascal). The energy between them becomes more intense and while the old friends reminisce, the Sheriff knows there’s more to this reunion than a wish to see each other again after so many years. Emotional and physical chaos brings things to a head, and you wonder if their relationship can survive it.

Aliens have made contact. They aren’t the grey, lanky kind so often portrayed, but a flat, squishy rectangle… think pink, fleshy end table with eyestalks. The Vuvv communicate through scratches and scrapes via pads at the end of their front appendages. Neither have they “come in peace” or aggression, they’re here to get access to humanity and our resources using commerce as the common language.

As a young immigrant family the Lumens moved to the big city of Elemental. They were awed by this new place where fire, water, land and air all live together harmoniously… or so they thought. They quickly found it less than welcoming for fire elementals with the city seemingly built to accommodate water more than others, so they found a little neighborhood with other fires and settled there to open a local shop. Time flew by as their daughter Ember grew and it was a given, both in their actions and words, that she’d take over the family business when it came time. One day, an unexpected visitor brought along with him a crisis that threatened to shut down their mom and pop store, so Ember was hellbent on fixing it. In the process she found an unexpected friend in Wade, a water elemental, and discovered the big city was much more than it seemed.