The Hollow Grove Logline: In the winter of 1863, a wounded Union soldier and a runaway enslaved woman must form an unholy alliance to survive a frozen no-man’s-land haunted by deserters, bounty hunters, and the ghosts of their own pasts.
The film’s centerpiece is a ten-minute, single-shot sequence inside a flooded ice cave, where Thomas must amputate his own frostbitten fingers with Nellie’s help—an act of trust that binds them beyond ideology. By the time they reach the Union lines, the question is no longer “who wins the war,” but “what kind of peace can two broken people build from the ashes?” civil war film
The war made them enemies. The winter made them allies. The truth made them free. The Hollow Grove Logline: In the winter of