The next morning, Amy stays lying in bed, dead from an overdose. Virgil panics, as he is wanted by the police. He snorts some dope, buries his drugs in the yard, and buries Amy in the desert. When he gets back to their house, he finds Jo (Amadeus), Amy’s sister, waiting there. Jo is very religious and has been estranged from her drug-addicted sister. However, it is very important she speak with Amy, when is “Dwayne” expecting her back? Bliss, which Maggio wrote with actors Jordan and Amadeus, is billed as the second film in a trilogy. The first installment is Maggio’s Virgil Bliss from 2001, also starring Jordan as the same character. It is absolutely not necessary to see the 23-year-old’s first film to totally get hooked on Bliss. Maggio strikes the perfect steel guitar chord of the Call of the West. Its tonal landscape has an intravenous Sam Shepherd feel, with people rolling like tumbleweeds off the end of the Earth.
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