The cool, wet misty plains of the Mississippi Delta offer little comfort to the three protagonists of art-director Lance Hammer’s bracing feature debut “Ballast.” In fact, the desolate surroundings–yards with broken cars, fields with no harvest, decrepit gas stations–only further reflect their downtrodden condition. But by the time this remarkably sure-footed first film is finished, a slight glimmer of hopefulness arises among the psychological and physical turmoil.

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