The dejected Josh O'Connor universe expands in elegiac Rebuilding trailer

In the “gently humanist” story, O’Connor plays Dusty, a Colorado rancher and “reserved, divorced father whose ranch has burned down in a devastating wildfire,” per the film’s synopsis. Dusty moves into a trailer on a government-run campsite where he meets a community of neighbors who’ve also lost everything. With their support, as well as the young daughter (Lila LaTorre) and ex-wife (Meghann Fahy) with whom he recently reconnected, Dusty finally starts to rebuild. 

In a director’s statement, Walker-Silverman shared that he was inspired to make the film after losing his grandmother’s land to a similarly devastating wildfire. While he said the experience of returning to the formerly “green and magnificent” expanse was “sad in countless ways,” it also provided a sliver of hope: “There was green too. Seedlings pushing through the ash. Purple flower buds. And seeing the small stubborn ways that nature returns was so fascinating it left hardly any space for sadness at all.”

“This paradox began to birth this story,” he went on. “How could a place be so impermanent—it has burned and will burn again, it’s changing as all places change, growing and struggling as all places grow and struggle—and yet so clearly be home?” Rebuilding premieres November 14 in theaters.