89 min.



   Trailer

This 2009 American film bravely asks: what happens if you live openly --- damn the consequences --- and what can happen if you don't?

When his mother dies, 15-year-old Sequan Green must relocate from New York City to the rural south to live with extended family. For a sensitive boy who quotes Baldwin fluently, the folks he meets in North Carolina aren't an easy fit, including his abusive cousin Michael, the drug dealer/basketball star Ahmed and the women in his family who live in perpetual denial. But he does find a friend in Ahmed's girlfriend, Lori, the "bad girl" who admires Sequan's brazen non-conformity. And he even finds a boy to love.

In the center of the story is a crime: a gun has been stolen from the principal's car. With this incident pushing the film towards its dramatic climax, each character is forced to confront the prisons built for him/herself.

Directed by John G. Young, the cast includes the delightful Derrick L. Middleton as young Sequan.