A troubled teenager spends the summer with his grandfather in the Ozarks, where he’s free from his mother, but not her painful past.
Carson Mitchell lives in Bismark, Arkansas, population of 2,500, where he works full time at the Sonic Drive-In. He is thinking about applying at the local fire station soon, but regardless of his job, he hopes to be successful and happy one day. He enjoys going to the lake and talking with friends at the gas station. Papaw Land is his first film, and his first experience with acting.