The Desert Project

Ida and her friend Rebecca return to Ida's house after a harrowing day in the desert where their film-crew friends vanish. Through some quirk in technology it appears they went back in time where Ida's then 20-year-old father kills a crew member during a fight. Ida takes Rebecca to her father's workshop where they look at an old 16mm black-and-white film that captures the fragments of events from that day... a 35 years ago.Ida realizes that a fight she had with her father a few days earlier over becoming an actress has led to arrange for the crew that has gone missing. In her desperation to enter film school, she and her friend Rebecca hire Boris - who becomes her father - Eric and Bethany (Matthew and Susan, who will marry in their new timeline), and Drake - who Boris kills 35 years in the past - to create an audition reel set in the desert near Ludlow, CA, on a closed military reservation where a secret experiment is about to take a nasty turn. The experiment miss-fires and the crew