In the film Wendy and Lucy and Indiana woman Wendy decides to pick up and move to Alaska but ends up getting stranded in Oregon with very little money and things continually get worse for her. First her car breaks down to which she has to wait for it to be fixed and her bad luck snowballs from there. She then decides to go to the supermarket but since she has little money she has to steal the dog food for her dog Lucy. She is caught trying to do this by the employee and finds herself in jail. Then when she finally gets out of jail she discovers that Lucy has been taken to the dog pound. Throughout this film the character of Wendy is unable to catch a break in her impoverished life and her luck goes from bad to worse.
While watching this film I could not help but relate it to the character of Stan in Killer of Sheep, who is also stuck in poverty and can never catch a break. He is always concerned about money and works in a dead end job at a slaughterhouse. He similarly to Wendy tries to help himself out by buying a new engine for his truck, only after he purchases it falls out the bed of his truck and is ruined. Wendy and Stan relate to each other because they each live in a life of poverty and even when they try to help themselves and better their situation they have instances of bad luck that keep them stuck in their current situation.
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