Retirement can be hard. Training your replacement can be harder—especially for a hit man like J. When it all goes wrong…there is an extra mess to clean up.

Frankie is dying. Refusing to do so in an impersonal hospital, he convinces Irene, an old flame with lingering resentment, to spring him out and drive him across Oklahoma to see his daughter one last time. Their journey becomes about more than just going home as they meet strangers and old friends and confront their past. Barking Water examines the ties that bind people together. It’s a tale of home . . . and what it takes to get there.