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Directed by Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence and Megan Trufant Tillman • 2025 • United States
Starring Josiah Cross, Danny Glover, Mia Isaac

Sumptuously shot in a nighttime New York City bathed in neon and melancholic longing, this evocative reverie on queer yearning and repression begins with a midnight encounter on the subway between two distraught strangers (Mia Isaac and Josiah Cross) wrestling with their gay identities. A journey back in time through the events of the night reveals how they got there and what broke them.

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