In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. They don’t always recognize the authority of the federal US-government. Some of them don’t pay their taxes, even if it means doing without running water or electricity.

Over time, the inhabitants of this area of the “white rural America” have seen an explosive mix made of economic decline, ecological disaster, and social violence, develop.

In the US they’re often called “hillbillies”. An insult some of them use to define themselves, almost as a provocation.

THE LAST HILLBILLY is a portrait of a hillbilly family through the words of one of their own, who wrote and performed the voice-over. Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe combines documentary observation and the evocation of a surprising interior world, witnessing a world on the verge of disappearing.