Davis single-handedly served as producer, editor, cinematographer, and director. Southern Comfort depicts Robert Eads' struggle with cancer, and the gentle southerner's attendant relationship with family and friends throughout his battles. The story, at first, is a common one, and Davis underscores the unique everydayness of Eads life.
Fantastic stories can happen in unexpected places.
The film tackles a sensitive subject and looks at the simple side. The fellow transgenders of Eads' Southern Comfort support group look to him as a patriarch, a father figure all the more wise from his long-term battles with sexual discrimination. As do his two sons from a previous marriage. Robert Eads the person, not Robert Eads the transgendered, enlivens Southern Comfort .