On Dia-de-los-Muertos, a young Latino struggles with his guilty conscience as it takes the form of his ex’s ghost that haunts him on a date with a new girl.
As finances tighten at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, a film archivist struggles with the unreasonable demands of their last major donor, Laiar Slanttely. After being forced to work on the Malone Project she races to unravel a vast conspiracy, oblivious to the eldritch twisting of the archive around her.
A tragic summer romance set against the backdrop of the beautiful Texas countryside, Ashes is a bittersweet meditation on how grief and regret can intertwine and how we can choose to move past these feelings, or live alongside them.