Whelm takes audiences on a mind-bending odyssey through the sprawling landscape of the Great Depression. As a midwestern hotel is brutally robbed of the money its hiding for a notorious gang, a WW1 veteran August, and his younger brother Reed, get tangled in a rivalry between a legendary bank robber and a mysterious enigma of a man named Alexander Aleksy. With their father left for dead, and their safe empty, the brothers embark on an outmatched wild goose chase. Their journey descends into the madness of the mind as the estranged brothers are lured into a snare that forces them to work together, and puts them at the center of a larger historic scheme. Told in 13 chapters, the intricately woven web of characters snowballs to an emotional climax of discovery that asks the viewer to look inwards.