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Feeling lost and disconnected, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war. That man, Franklin Page, has long since moved on and has a wife, a family and a reliable job in a little town. Upon arriving, Sherman seems at first a harmless, if awkward, shell of a man. But as he inserts himself further into the Page’s life, he reveals himself to be an angry, unstable individual prone to great jealousy and deep resentment. The stability Franklin worked so hard to establish is soon threatened, and the violence he believed he’d left behind in the war begins to re-emerge and cloud over both the household and the town itself.
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Born in Vancouver, Ryan Redford graduated from York University’s film program and received an apprenticeship in directing from the Academy of Canadian Cinema. He has written and directed six short films which have screened at more than 50 international festivals and been broadcast on television stations including CBC, IFC, Showcase and France3. His two most recent shorts, Song of Wreckage and Lake, were both produced through the National Film Board of Canada and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 and 2005, respectively. His feature script Bone won for Best Unproduced Screenplay at the 2007 Writers’ Guild of Canada Awards. Oliver Sherman is Redford’s first feature film. 
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