The extreme West of America. An arid, mythical landscape characterized by the great void: no water, no trees, no life ... or so it seems. Desert Haze tells the layered story of human presence in the American desert. A mosaic of stories from the past and the present, myth and reality. Astronauts in training for future Mars expeditions, Japanese country singers and archaeologists searching for traces of military testing as well as the mysterious death of John Wayne …