House of Sand and Fog

The name had me curious from the start. I could never tell exactly what the movie was about, but I was intrigued. Watching it, the Bay Area locale thrilled me. But the movie itself is a tragedy, showing how inept bureaucracy destroys lives. If you start receiving official notices in the mail, don’t ignore them. You, and the lives of strangers you may otherwise never meet, will thank you for it.