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Grimace in the Burnt Black Hills
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Fleeing a gruesome workplace accident in Ohio, Paul—a man severely scarred by a chemical fire and hiding his face beneath fake hair and drawn-on eyebrows—finds himself stranded in South Dakota with a broken truck radiator. Desperate to stay invisible to the world, his isolation is upended when a kind Native American family offers to help him get back on the road.