SYNOPSIS

"THE LITTLE HORSE" is a film about three young children who are faced with survival as they find themselves alone on their Texas farm when their mother never returns from a routine supply trip. Amidst the drought of the 1930s Depression era, the children have to provide for each other in ways far beyond their maturity. In order to pacify her younger siblings, the eldest sister Caroline embellishes a lie about the family's acquisition of a little horse. The weight of this lie grows with the continued absence of their mother which pushes Caroline to introduce her brother and sister to the hollowing nature of their reality... or prove up on her story. Neither of which she can bring herself to do.