Blue Heron isn't a mystery in the traditional sense. There's no crime to solve or murderers to apprehend. Instead, it examines a family slowly coming apart and a young girl who silently takes in everything around her - especially her older brother (Edik Beddoes), who seems like a ticking time bomb ready to explode at any moment. Sounds like a drama, right? Well, Blue Heron is that, too. It's a lot of things: a meditation on memory, a portrait of mental illness and the power of storytelling to piece together people and events from the past.