Benh zeitlin co writes and directs this academy award nominated fantasy drama about a six year old girl struggling to survive in the flooded bayous of louisiana hushpuppy quvenzhan wallis and her father wink dwight henry live in the bathtub a poverty stricken semi feral swamp area outside the protection of the new orleans levee system she sees herself as a little piece of a big big universe inhabiting a semi magical world where everything is part of an interrelated organic whole