In the summer of 1987, the Starlight Drive-In on Bells Ferry Road, just outside of Marietta, Georgia, started showing only one movie: a black-and-white film no one remembered booking, titled 'The Long Wait.' The marquee never changed. The same grainy footage of a man walking down an empty highway looped from dusk until dawn. My cousin Danny worked the projection booth. He called me the third night, voice strange, said he needed me to watch it with him. I drove out that Friday, past the kudzu-choked fences and the old cotton fields, the summer heat thick as wet wool. We sat in the bed of his pickup, speakers hissing, and watched the same scene repeat—the man walking, never arriving, the road behind him shifting with each loop. By the fourth night, the cars in the lot were full of people who'd been there since the first showing. Their eyes didn't blink. The projector reel never ran out. And the man on the screen—he was getting closer to the camera, one step per loop.